Error installing TrueNas on Celeron N3350

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Hi there,

I got this nice industrial motherboard from BCMCOM (MX3350N) and I am having issues installing TrueNas. Motherboard supports UEFI and TPM2.0, it will install Windows 11 no problem, but TrueNas fails.

13.075101] RSP: 002b:00007fff35276888 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000139
13.075515] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000563418dd56b0 RCX: 00007f22c582b7d9
13.0759351 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007f22c595cefd RDI: 000000000000000c
13.076327] RBP: 00007f22c595cefd R08: 000000000000000 R09: 0000563418db4f50
13.076720] R10: 000000000000000c R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000020000
13.0771351 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000563418dcf6c0 R15: 00007fff35276af0
13.077601]
13.077997] —[end trace 0000000000000000 1-
13.389413] igb 0000:03:00.0: PHY reset is blocked due to SOLIDER session.
16.743256] igb 0000:03:00.0: Invalid MAC Address
16.821277] igb 0000:03:00.0: probe with driver igh failed with error -5

Tried installing this using Ventoy and directly from ISO to USB using Rufus.

Any advice?

Thanks

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Their does not appear to be enough to the error message to determine why TrueNAS won’t install. Perhaps someone else will recognize this error. But, if you supply other error messages, that might help.

It would also be helpful to list the exact version of TrueNAS you want to install. Further, list what port and device you are trying to use as the install target, (aka SATA port, SSD).


Last, while this computer might be what you have and want to use, it is not really expandable. It has:

  • Per Intel, maximum 8GBytes of memory, (the bare minimum for TrueNAS WITHOUT any Apps or VMs…). To be clear, some people have managed to get 16Gbytes, even more, out of these lower end Intel CPUs. It is just not guaranteed to work.
  • It has exactly 1 SATA port
  • It has 1 x 2280 M.2 card slot
  • The PCIe slot is x1 version 2, barely enough bandwidth for 2 HDDs. Though the slot is open ended, which is good.
  • USB attached storage drives for ZFS data pools are discouraged because they are generally unreliable for extended use.
  • Last, the CPU is 2 Cores, no hyper-threading. Somewhat lower performance for TrueNAS

Neither ZFS nor TrueNAS are designed for the very low end computers. While they can work, and probably work well, (for what they are), you just need to know this is likely going to be a slow & limited expandability TrueNAS server.

Here is the Intel Ark reference for the Intel Celeron Processor N3350:

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Yes, I know its not the fastest and most powerful but it was saved from going to the landfill.

There is something wrong with the board, any linux distro seems to hung while live booting at around the same stage. I updated the bios to the latest release available.

Tried proxmox, ubuntu desktop and server. All seem to just stop responding while booting. Tried all bios settings but can’t see a way to disable the NICs (since the invalid mac address I thought it may be network controller issue).

I am going to use an Optiplex mini PC until I order a proper NAS ITX board.

Thanks.

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There are precious few of those.

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I was thinking something in the line of those Chinese mini itx boards (already ordered Jonsbo case so has to be itx) available on Amazon. With Celeron N100, 10g LAN and full size PCIe port.