shaun slasor
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Hello all.
I have the mount root problem on my Supermicro X9SRL Freenas 9 system installed on a Sandisk 16GB Cruzer Blade USB-2 thumb drive plugged into any of the USB-2 ports.
Note that I am NOT using a USB-3 device or USB-3 port.
The problem started immediately on rebooting after a normal updates download and install. The system had been working quite happily since June 2015 using the same Sandisk thumb drive.
What did not work. . .
1. changing the USB port had no effect, even using the USB-2 port on the motherboard itself as suggested earlier.
2. applying the fix for 50000 ms delay had no effect. I did not see a 1 minute delay either.
3. changing the "Legacy vs Auto" setting as suggested earlier had no effect. It had previously been working quite happily on Auto setting anyway.
4. I notice that the nightly build of Freenas 10 also has the problem.
What did work. . .
4. if I pull out the USB stick when the boot process freezes for about 10 seconds (so after the repeated messages about "enumerate" and "failed to get address" for the USB bus), and then plug the Sandisk back in after a second or two, then I can see on the screen the Sandisk (or the bus its plugged into ?) get an address, and then the boot process continues and I can access my Freeness again. But Freeness GUI then shows an orange flashing warning that smart.d is not working, which is not normal. At this point I added the 50,000 ms delay as a permanent tuneable and re-booted, but it still had no effect.
5. if I select the previous version of Freeness dated November 2015 (selected during boot whilst Grub is displaying the options) then my system boots as normal.
I will try the latest Freeness version that has the temporary fix in it, tomorrow to see if it works.
Also I have the same problem on my Asrock Z97 mini ITX board, again using the USB-2 ports with a different Sandisk Cruzer Blade, this time an 8GB one.
But an old AMD Gigabyte 890-fxa-UD5 board works fine on the USB-2 ports using the same Sandisk drive that gives the root mount error on my Supermicro and Asrock boards. I have an Asus Rampage Gene X79 board that I will also try later.
Again, to stress I am using a USB-2 thumb drive in a USB-2 port, and so this is not a problem that happens only on USB-3 devices / or USB-3 ports.
Let me know if you want me to try anything else, happy to do so.
I have the mount root problem on my Supermicro X9SRL Freenas 9 system installed on a Sandisk 16GB Cruzer Blade USB-2 thumb drive plugged into any of the USB-2 ports.
Note that I am NOT using a USB-3 device or USB-3 port.
The problem started immediately on rebooting after a normal updates download and install. The system had been working quite happily since June 2015 using the same Sandisk thumb drive.
What did not work. . .
1. changing the USB port had no effect, even using the USB-2 port on the motherboard itself as suggested earlier.
2. applying the fix for 50000 ms delay had no effect. I did not see a 1 minute delay either.
3. changing the "Legacy vs Auto" setting as suggested earlier had no effect. It had previously been working quite happily on Auto setting anyway.
4. I notice that the nightly build of Freenas 10 also has the problem.
What did work. . .
4. if I pull out the USB stick when the boot process freezes for about 10 seconds (so after the repeated messages about "enumerate" and "failed to get address" for the USB bus), and then plug the Sandisk back in after a second or two, then I can see on the screen the Sandisk (or the bus its plugged into ?) get an address, and then the boot process continues and I can access my Freeness again. But Freeness GUI then shows an orange flashing warning that smart.d is not working, which is not normal. At this point I added the 50,000 ms delay as a permanent tuneable and re-booted, but it still had no effect.
5. if I select the previous version of Freeness dated November 2015 (selected during boot whilst Grub is displaying the options) then my system boots as normal.
I will try the latest Freeness version that has the temporary fix in it, tomorrow to see if it works.
Also I have the same problem on my Asrock Z97 mini ITX board, again using the USB-2 ports with a different Sandisk Cruzer Blade, this time an 8GB one.
But an old AMD Gigabyte 890-fxa-UD5 board works fine on the USB-2 ports using the same Sandisk drive that gives the root mount error on my Supermicro and Asrock boards. I have an Asus Rampage Gene X79 board that I will also try later.
Again, to stress I am using a USB-2 thumb drive in a USB-2 port, and so this is not a problem that happens only on USB-3 devices / or USB-3 ports.
Let me know if you want me to try anything else, happy to do so.