pincorrect
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- Jan 2, 2017
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I have a FreeNAS 9.10 system. I actually want to upgrade it to 11.2 this week, but before I do, I need to fix an issue with my boot drives, which are 32gb USB drives (Samsung). I have two mirrored drives. But I noticed that one of them became defective, and so my boot array status shows as "Degraded". I bought 2 new 64gb USB drives (Sandisk this time). First, I removed the bad 32gb drive and plugged in one of the two new drives, and rebooted FreeNAS. Then I went to the Web interface, and to the System|Boot section and brought up the Status. It showed a long number code for the removed drive (instead of the device name) with the status "UNAVAIL". I hit the "Replace" button at the bottom, and it offered one device choice for the new 64gb drive. I proceeded to build that drive. Then it showed me 3 drives in the Status display, my good 32gb drive, the new drive, and the old, removed, 32gd drive with status "UNAVAIL". I selected that one and hit the "Detach" button. Now the status of my 2 drive array was good ("ONLINE"), and consisted of my old, still working 32gb drive, and one new 64gb drive. To be sure, I rebooted FreeNAS, and it was fine.
However I had purchased 2 new 64gb drives because I wanted to have identical boot drives. So I pulled out the old 32gb drive, plugged in my second new 64gb drive, and followed a procedure similar to the one about to copy the boot image onto it from the first new 64gb drive, and to remove the old 32gb drive from the array. In the end, the two new drives were in, and the status show everything was good ("ONLINE").
So I rebooted again. But I did not get very far. It displayed "Reboot and Select proper Boot Device or Insert Boot Media and press a key.". So it will not boot with my new 64gb drives. I removed both, reinserted my one good 32gb drive, and rebooted. Now I am back to square one, with a degraded array having one good drive (the old 32gb drive).
What did I do wrong? How do I migrate my one good boot image to the 2 new 64gb drives?
However I had purchased 2 new 64gb drives because I wanted to have identical boot drives. So I pulled out the old 32gb drive, plugged in my second new 64gb drive, and followed a procedure similar to the one about to copy the boot image onto it from the first new 64gb drive, and to remove the old 32gb drive from the array. In the end, the two new drives were in, and the status show everything was good ("ONLINE").
So I rebooted again. But I did not get very far. It displayed "Reboot and Select proper Boot Device or Insert Boot Media and press a key.". So it will not boot with my new 64gb drives. I removed both, reinserted my one good 32gb drive, and rebooted. Now I am back to square one, with a degraded array having one good drive (the old 32gb drive).
What did I do wrong? How do I migrate my one good boot image to the 2 new 64gb drives?