Pax Romana
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It's a Dell PowerEdge R310 in perfect operating condition, RAM has been thoroughly tested, the boot USB is a genuine quality Sandisk 32GB, and the system runs other systems just fine: UNRAID and Windows 10 Enterprise.
I get the blasted "Root mount waiting for: CAM" issue and the installer USB just loops over and over for at least 15 minutes, never timing out.
The RAM is Dell-issued ECC server RAM at 12 GB. The PERC card has been pulled and I'm running just off the integrated motherboard SATA ports to three 1 TB drives that work fine with UNRAID. The boot mode is BIOS and the drive mode set in BIOS is ATA (not RAID). All other fancy stuff in the BIOS has been disabled to keep the system simple for troubleshooting. The BIOS sees all the hard drives and the USB installation drive just fine. There are no other add-in cards in the MB slots.
The system as it is will boot and run an UNRAID system without issue with 3 btrfs data drives. Absolutely no problems. The system also boots the FreeBSD installer from the same USB on the same USB port without a hiccup. FreeBSD 13.0-Release will install to one of the blanked hard drives with ZFS on root and boot from that hard drive just fine. Windows 10 Enterprise also ran fine on the system for 73 days.
The problem is, I want the data integrity that ZFS provides without the creation and administration hassles of using OpenZFS on Unbuntu. UNRAID works fine using btrfs on the data drives but btrfs is not the preferred file system according to the UNRAID admins, and encrypted btrfs on UNRAID is just asking for trouble. That leaves TrueNAS. XigmaNAS and OMV aren't contenders. I don't trust ZFS on XigmaNAS, and OMV doesn't have ZFS.
So my question is, what's the problem with the "Root mount waiting for: CAM" that's seems to have been plaguing both FreeNAS and now TrueNAS for some time, according to my Google searches? If UNRAID, Windows 10, and FreeBSD 13 all run fine on the machine, well that suggests something got booger'd-up in TrueNAS.
I'm flashing a USB drive now to test if Ubuntu Server will install to an SSD on the R310 system and then if OpenZFS can pool the three hard drives without issues.
I get the blasted "Root mount waiting for: CAM" issue and the installer USB just loops over and over for at least 15 minutes, never timing out.
The RAM is Dell-issued ECC server RAM at 12 GB. The PERC card has been pulled and I'm running just off the integrated motherboard SATA ports to three 1 TB drives that work fine with UNRAID. The boot mode is BIOS and the drive mode set in BIOS is ATA (not RAID). All other fancy stuff in the BIOS has been disabled to keep the system simple for troubleshooting. The BIOS sees all the hard drives and the USB installation drive just fine. There are no other add-in cards in the MB slots.
The system as it is will boot and run an UNRAID system without issue with 3 btrfs data drives. Absolutely no problems. The system also boots the FreeBSD installer from the same USB on the same USB port without a hiccup. FreeBSD 13.0-Release will install to one of the blanked hard drives with ZFS on root and boot from that hard drive just fine. Windows 10 Enterprise also ran fine on the system for 73 days.
The problem is, I want the data integrity that ZFS provides without the creation and administration hassles of using OpenZFS on Unbuntu. UNRAID works fine using btrfs on the data drives but btrfs is not the preferred file system according to the UNRAID admins, and encrypted btrfs on UNRAID is just asking for trouble. That leaves TrueNAS. XigmaNAS and OMV aren't contenders. I don't trust ZFS on XigmaNAS, and OMV doesn't have ZFS.
So my question is, what's the problem with the "Root mount waiting for: CAM" that's seems to have been plaguing both FreeNAS and now TrueNAS for some time, according to my Google searches? If UNRAID, Windows 10, and FreeBSD 13 all run fine on the machine, well that suggests something got booger'd-up in TrueNAS.
I'm flashing a USB drive now to test if Ubuntu Server will install to an SSD on the R310 system and then if OpenZFS can pool the three hard drives without issues.