Hi there, so I’ve recently aquired a spanking new Aoyueah K12SVM-LI server board at a good price which has some nice bells and whistles such IPMI and PCI-E 4.0. The BMC is the industry standard Aspeed ST2500 which works as it should. Such bells and whistles would be unthinkably pricey today for a new server board but you can check around and see how much this board and processor combo costs
I’m trying to migrate my set up over to a U.2 array after my previous NAS died (TrueNAS-13.0-U6.2)
I’ve installed a KX-7000 (3.0 Ghz to 3.6 Ghz) processor which is a modern x86 AMD64 procesor from around 2023 - 2024 and some DDR5 (gasp!) which I manage to buy from a local online retailer when they forgot to update their prices.
It also supports Debian 10/11/12 which TrueNAS is based on. From my research, support for this platform was merged into the Linux Kernel ~ 2024
However, I’ve been unable to install TrueNAS-SCALE-25.10.7. It appears the installer gets caught in a loop which I’ve captured through the BMC’s interface. Pray tell how I can install TrueNAS scale on this board. Thanks in advance
Note: I’m trying to embed screenshots into this post but have been unable to. Is there some restriction on the accounts?
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It might be that you’re hitting a support issue on your exotic CPU. Which would warrant a bug report—except that you’d need running TrueNAS for that. But to act on it would require that developers have access to KX-7000 hardware.
Thanks for the reply. I’ve checked my email and have not received one for a bot check. Would there be a way to get another email for it?
As for access to the KX-7000, for this motherboard in particular, it’s sold directly from the manufacturer on 1688. I could give a link once my bot check is passed.
I’d be willing to send my board and processor over if needed itself so long as the shipping isn’t too high. I’m not located in China by the way. So I’m unsure if sending such a product for R&D would incur tariffs. It would also need a dev to be willing to work on it. So to the Devs, let me know.
I feel these indigenous Chinese designs aren’t competitive performance wise for Desktop use but they’d make great NAS or Edge platforms at the prices and IO they run at.
Ah it looks like I can post pics now. So this is the board. I’m trying out the image upload functionality. I’ll get the output from the BMC uploaded when I get back home
You can try installing some version of a Live Linux ISO to see if you can get a slightly different OS to install. You can attempt hardware and RAM tests to make sure it is all working as expected.
Minimizing the hardware down to just a boot drive and turning off all unnecessary hardware features might help also.
Alright. I’ll try that. Particularly plain Debian. I guess that also involves removing this PLX 8748 card that I have installed to connect to my U.2 array.
It might be worth trying to install TrueNAS 27/RC1 instead of 25.10.7, if you’re hunting for the newer kernel (tho’ if Debian 13.7 isn’t working, I can’t see that helping)
Found the issue and now TrueNAS is able to be installed, no parameter modifications needed during installation. The problem was the RAM. The sticks I used are incompatible with the motherboard for some reason.
I’m going to leave it here for everyone who is trying to use this platfrom for TrueNAS, do not use those GeIL RAM sticks. The GSkill Ones work (but are too expensive for this application so I’ll go find a cheaper pair)
Temps look good so I’m going to presume that the C-states are working. In the dashboard, the per CPU core graph works while the per core temp doesn’t. (maybe this processor doesn’t even have per core temperature probes).
So in summary, the KX-7000 platform does work with TrueNAS. You can go even cheaper by using the DDR4 version of this motherboard
