Unable to boot Freenas 9 after reboot (grey screen with blinking cursor)

[Simon Steinitz]

Hi everybody.

After 9 months of uptime, I manually rebooted my NAS from ssh console but the system never came back: no shares, no ping, no ssh...

I put an LCD monitor on the computer vga output and I got an infinite loop of a grey screen with a white blinking cursor

I think it could be a corrupted data in the boot USB, even a dead USB stick.

I can reinstall FreeNAS in a brand new USB memory and then, rebuild my zpool and re-configure the freenas options.
I'm sure I will recovery my media files but I'm not quite sure what will happen to my Jails (Transmission, Couchpotato...)

I would greatly appreciate any help you guys can give me for solving this problem.

 

[anodos]

Try a new USB stick first. If it boots, then auto-import your pool.