Will Only Boot In Safe Mode

[xbrun]

So after Building a new system, transferring my drive, and ensuring that its fully functional i tried to boot in to truenas core, but the system boot loops unless i boot in to safe mode, there are no issues other wise, the only problem is in safe mode only 1 core is accessible and constantly going from 1-50% percent utilization while transferring large files. any help would be appreciated. I also had the same issue when trying to boot the installer from a flash drive. The system is running in the default ZFS pool settings. I do think the issue may be due to the motherboard intigrated grafics because my windows 10 install usb did failed while trying to boot the GUI, i do have a win 11/7/vista/xp/xp64/98se disk/usb drives but i have yet to see if it loads.

System: Super Micro X7DCL-I, 16gb DDR2 ECC at 667MHZ, 2x Xeon E5410 @ 2.33 GHZ, Motherboard GPU, Thermal take Smart SM-850, Boot drive is a 128 GB Inland ssd and Storage pool is off of 4 3tb SATA HDD old HITACHI units. and a mining case.

The Previous system; ASUS P5W DH Deluxe/WIFI, 8gb DDR2 Running at 800MHZ, Core 2 Quad Q6600, NVIDIA GT 530 (board wouldn't boot headless).

Im not expereanced with servers but i do know a good amount about Consumer PC's.

 

[sretalla]

Sounds like it's able to run enough to take a config backup.

Once you've done that, try reinstalling and restore the config.

 

[xbrun]

I tried this and ran in to the same issue, i was only able to boot in to install in safe mode and boot in safe mode, i did put my win 7 install disk and it blue screend with "incompatible multiprocessor mode" i modified all processor settings including disableing one processor but had no avail in truenas, win 7, and linux mint all failed to boot/begin installation process. Widows xp 64 is currently installing on a spare hdd that i plugged in just so i can get more information on why this may be the case. If there are any suggestions other than physically removing the second processor im all ears.

 

[sretalla]

I would be very surprised if the BIOS in a system with DDR2 memory can support the FreeBSD bootloader, so you're probably going to need to try FreeNAS 11.2 if you want "CORE"... although I wouldn't really recommend doing that.

You may get some success with SCALE since it uses GRUB.

 

[xbrun]

So i did try booting the installers for Scale and FreeNas and ran in to the same boot looping issues, im thinking this is more of an issue with the bios, as truenas booted fine on the other ddr2 motherboard. Im going to attempt to acquire the latest version and see if this allows TrueNas to boot.

 

[xbrun]

I just switched to an intel s5000psl board and its solved all my issues