x58 problems

[tha pac]

I have this nice gigabyte Mb with an Xeon l5640

GA-EX58-UD4P

I want to use it for freenas, but i cant for the life of me get it to boot from a USB og SSD/HDD with freenas og any other linux based operating system

As soon i put a usb in with any form of linux it post but only to the memory count, when i try with a win10 usb it works fine.

I have tried booting from a CD, and then i can boot the installer up, but as soon i get the installation started it freeezes. And because i has written something on the USB it wont boot past the memory counter. And empty USB storage device isn´t a problem and it boots fine into windows with that.

I have tried with regular linux, unraid and freenas, and it wont work.

Any suggestions on how i might make it work

Any help is apriciated

 

[Chris Moore]

I have this nice gigabyte Mb with an Xeon l5640

GA-EX58-UD4P

I have one of those also. I use it for my Linux computer. The problem is that the chipset of the system board does not support ECC memory, so the fact you have a Xeon in the socket is not significant. This is not a good platform for FreeNAS. You could use it for testing, but if you are going to use something long-term, you should get a properly compliant system that does support ECC memory.

As soon i put a usb in with any form of linux it post but only to the memory count, when i try with a win10 usb it works fine.

Have you updated the BIOS to the latest version? I didn't have any problem installing Linux on this system. No problem at all. It is possible that you are doing something wrong when you are creating the USB boot media for the installation of the operating system.

 

[tha pac]

Its the newest bios on the board.

The USB i use can boot from 2 other systems i have, and also install freenas afterwards. So i think they er are made correctly.

My nas would hold a lot of movies, så ECC memory are not that important. And the xeon i simply because thats the one i got ;-)

 

[sremick]

ECC memory are not that important.

If you don't care about the integrity of your data, why are you going with FreeNAS (ZFS, RAID redundancy, etc)?