Doesn’t the installer let you pick either UEFI or legacy/BIOS boot? Sorry, it’s been a while. The standard FreeBSD installer sure does.
EDIT: my TN CORE as well as my TN SCALE systems are all installed with only an EFI partition and no legacy boot one. So either that’s the only option already - which I doubt - or the installer lets you pick.
The boot device isn’t connected to your machine??
I’m assuming this is a typo, otherwise it is kind of obvious that it won’t boot.
It does not let you select (as of my most recent look a couple months ago)
Select Install → Select boot-pool disk(s) → Confirm erasure → Set admin password → Create swap partition → Reboot into TN. I don’t believe there are any ‘advanced’ options (you can drop into a shell, but I’m not counting that)
EDIT: just gave this a quick scrub through to confirm
Get it. For me that’s a good thing since I have been installing everything as EFI only wherever I could.
Now the only unanswered question is if it would support legacy boot and e.g. install the appropriate boot loader partition depending on the way the installer was booted at the beginning.
This is interesting, I reinstalled just a couple of days ago and didn’t see this as an option. I wonder if this only shows in x circumstance, like if UEFI with CSM is in use.
Well, your motherboard model isn’t mentioned so we can’t give you any real pointers other than Google. There should be plenty of guides that will show you how to do this.
I tested using a VM hosted on TrueNAS. Eitherway, I got the screen, but it happens as the final prompt after the install process “begins” (ie when writing starts being written to the screen.
s the new boot device–the one you installed TrueNAS onto–still connected to your computer? no
Umm why is the boot drive not connected?
On some systems, the BIOS may mess up the boot order. I have one such system that can act this way only under certain conditions…
One way to see if the machine can boot is to remove all drives except the drive you know is the boot drive. Then boot the machine. If that works then that was what was wrong. Also make note of the serial number of the drive as if the Bios messes up the drive order again you know which one to set in BIOS as the boot drive.
I have also read where some BIOS and an auto type setting for booting either Legacy or UEFI. If it supports UEFI then set to UEFI only in the BIOS. It makes things much happier
Try remove all boot device you dont need from boot priority order, then check the hard disk priority from the only menu available pressing enter, and try reboot
