SOLVED When installing I have two options, TrueNAS Scale and Truenas Scale build 115200

[paradoxiom]

I can't find anything about build 115200.

which is the latest one?

I installed the first and got this on boot after removing installation media:

 

[morganL]

Where are you getting these images from?

 

[paradoxiom]

from the download page on the website.

I just tried again and got the same error and found this old post. I guess I never solved it. back to core again since nobody has a clue.

 

[danb35]

115200 sounds very much like a baud rate, so I'd expect that option would give you a serial console. But since you haven't given any information about, well, anything, there isn't much we can do to help track down the problem.

 

[paradoxiom]

I have tried installing it to the boot device from both the iLO remote console mounting the .iso as a dvd, and also from a usb stick.

I have tried different boot devices.

It is the latest version from the website now, and was back here too.

It's an HP Gen10+ Microserver.

Not sure what else I can say.

Here's a video of the install: https://streamable.com/vzgfhc

Do you want serial numbers for the usb sticks or anything like that?

I get the option for a regular install and that baud rate one using either the iLO remote or usb. I take it I shouldn't even be getting that option?

Oh, I saw something somewhere about 'sdds' as boot drives (they are m2 drives in usb enclosures) need to be GPT, so I booted up Mint and gparted one to GPT and just cleaned and left the other raw. I have two because I was going to use one as a mirror. Same thing on each. Initially they were just formatted in windows with rufus.

 

[danb35]

I like the Microservers, but I've seen some threads about their having trouble booting SCALE (though AFAIK no tickets have been filed, which would actually let the devs investigate). I'm seeing some suggestion that the specific boot device used may be a factor. Here's one:

TrueNAS SCALE Can Install to USB SSD But Won't Boot

I want to move my boot drive from a SATA port to internal USB, so I've bought a USB M.2 SSD enclosure & a 120GB M.2 SSD. The installation can see the drive just fine, and completes the install - BUT - once I reboot, despite having set the USB drivekey to boot #1, and the system showing that it...

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and another:

Migration problem: GRUB install fails (diskboot.img size must be 512 bytes.)

I run a TrueNAS Core system on a HP Microserver Gen10 plus and uploaded the migration package ("update to scale" doesn't fit here and hurts my common sense). I run the system disk via USB due to the earlier HP models not being able to boot from a SSD that was built in. Sadly this error pops up...

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...though there are several threads where people report using them successfully.

I get the option for a regular install and that baud rate one using either the iLO remote or usb. I take it I shouldn't even be getting that option?

No, that's a perfectly ordinary boot option; I get it too:

Whatever the problem is has nothing to do with this boot option--but I don't think that gets us any closer to figuring out what it is.

I have a MS Gen10+ that I'm using as a small Proxmox node--maybe I'll see if I can take it down for a bit to test this.

 

[paradoxiom]

I have figured out the problem.

I tried installing CORE to the M.2 card I have in a USB enclosure.

It seemed to go fine, but when starting TrueNAS CORE it spewed out some message about not being able to access a drive or something (it was on my little 7" monitor I can't remember what it said exactly.)

This is when I tried re-installing CORE to the USB stick I had.

Everything went fine, and it boots up.

So the issue is the M.2 drives in the USB enclosures, for some reason they will not work as boot devices.

So if I can figure out why these won't work as boot devices then i'm sure that'll fix everything. CORE not working properly with them proves it isn't a CORE/SCALE issue but booting from these drives issue.

How exactly should they be formatted / partitioned / etc? Like I said I tried making them GPT with a fat32 filesystem (I know the filesystem is wiped anyway upon install but just did it for compatability purposes instead of leaving them RAW) but that didn't seem to do it. Do they need to be MBR? should I set any 'flags' on them using GParted like maybe 'bootable'?

From one of those threads linked:
"I tried a M.2 NVME to USB-C adapter and it also was not booting. Such a stupid behaviour from SCALE here."
So it seems it's definitely an M2 to usb adapter issue. This sucks because I have 0 way of knowing which enclosure will or will not work now, and I don't want to buy every £5-20 adapter/enclosure I can find until one works.

I've been meaning to 'upgrade' from using an SD card in a USB adapter for my boot device for almost a year and I finally get around to it and decide to finally migrate to core at the same time and I just can't.

 

[paradoxiom]

Okay.
I had to go into the server BIOS and enable EUFI booting (it was on Legacy).

However EUFI booting doesn't give you the option to boot from CDROM, so I had to set it to Legacy, load the ISO into the remote console, boot it up, install SCALE to one of the NVME drives (it didn't detect the one in the servers USB boot port), then I had to change it to EUFI, plug the NVME drive into the servers USB boot port, and now it seems to be working.

Just incase anyone has the same issue and finds this.