Won't boot - showing black screen only.

[Aurimas N.]

Yesterday I've upgraded to 11.1-U6.3 and everything seemed to work fine, before going to bed I've clicked reboot via the GUI, and this morning found out that it never booted up.

this is how it looks when trying to boot:

no IP's come online on the network, it stays blank forever.

 

[dlavigne]

It is possible that the boot device died. Does a fresh install of 11.1-U6.3 resolve the issue?

 

[Aurimas N.]

It is possible that the boot device died. Does a fresh install of 11.1-U6.3 resolve the issue?

Somehow I have dismissed that as it is installed into mirrored usb devices, however I've removed on of the usbs and it is booting now. Thanks!
p.s. renamed thread appropriately

 

[joeschmuck]

Somehow I have dismissed that as it is installed into mirrored usb devices

The mirrored USB drives are not a true RAID thus if the USB Flash Drive designated as the first boot device fails due to corruption, odds are the system will hang. If you want a true RAID Mirror boot device then you are going to need a true hardware RAID device. You didn't specify your hardware either so you may want to check to see if there is a BIOS update for it or just run it off of a single Flash Drive which is perfectly acceptable. I keep a backup copy of the configuration file so I can rebuild the boot device quickly if I ever need to.

 

[Aurimas N.]

So, I've formated the faulty usb drive on my desktop, inserted it back to freenas box, and now I get:
Boot Volume Condition: ONLINE One or more devices is currently being resilvered. The pool will continue to function, possibly in a degraded state.

I asume everything should be fine once resilvering is complete.

For the recrod the usb is SanDisk Ultra Fit 16GB.