Hi Guys,
I have spent the last few moths collecting some hardware together to get a FreeNAS box up and running on my home network. But I cannot get it to boot, though it installs without a problem. Basically it is doing this, the only difference is the boot freezes just after it says:
The bar spins a few times, then just stops. I left in on for an hour, and the bar did not move at all.
Nothing on the net seems to be able to help me. There are some places that say to make sure the USB is set to HDD emulation in your BIOS, which it is.
I am running a Tyan K8SRE (S2891) motherboard, with dual single core Opterons (running at 3Ghz). I maxed the board out with 16Gb of Registered ECC RAM (DDR400), and there are 4 1Tb WD Black Enterprise SATA drives in there as well.
What I have tried:
1. Updated the BIOS to the latest BIOS.
2. Tried using two different usb sticks, with the same results on both - both are 2Gb sticks
3. Tried different USB ports (there are two headers and two on the back, all 6 yield the same results)
4. I have tried both FreeNAS 8.0 and 8.3, with the same results.
5. Total reset the BIOS default, no luck.
I'd really love to get this thing running, so any help will will be greatly appreciated.
I have spent the last few moths collecting some hardware together to get a FreeNAS box up and running on my home network. But I cannot get it to boot, though it installs without a problem. Basically it is doing this, the only difference is the boot freezes just after it says:
Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
The bar spins a few times, then just stops. I left in on for an hour, and the bar did not move at all.
Nothing on the net seems to be able to help me. There are some places that say to make sure the USB is set to HDD emulation in your BIOS, which it is.
I am running a Tyan K8SRE (S2891) motherboard, with dual single core Opterons (running at 3Ghz). I maxed the board out with 16Gb of Registered ECC RAM (DDR400), and there are 4 1Tb WD Black Enterprise SATA drives in there as well.
What I have tried:
1. Updated the BIOS to the latest BIOS.
2. Tried using two different usb sticks, with the same results on both - both are 2Gb sticks
3. Tried different USB ports (there are two headers and two on the back, all 6 yield the same results)
4. I have tried both FreeNAS 8.0 and 8.3, with the same results.
5. Total reset the BIOS default, no luck.
I'd really love to get this thing running, so any help will will be greatly appreciated.