The ASRock/Megarac SP management interface comes up and I don’t see anything “scary”. I am seeing some “Timestamp Clock Synch - Asserted” and I don’t see any matching “Deasserted”, but when I go to Configuration > NTP, it is set to automatically synchronize and the time there looks very good.
Other than switching the battery, I only blew out a little dust. No other changes.
I have/had a recent TrueNAS running (not SCALE). It was making a network drive available via SMB and was running Plex plugin; neither work now.
Ha! Sorry yes… it’s on and plugged into the local network. The ASRock/Megarac SP management web interface is available. But there’s no https://freenas.local/ui/dashboard available, which is where it lived when working (named freenas.local and no truenas.local because it’s old). And there are no SMB shares appearing on the network.
Also I can ssh into the same IP address that’s serving the ASRock/Megarac SP management web interface (giving me “BusyBox v1.13.2 (2017-01-05 17:23:55 CST) built-in shell (ash)”)
That really isn’t helpful. It’s good to know–it shows the motherboard isn’t completely dead–but it doesn’t really answer whether FreeNAS is actually booted and running. From the IPMI, you should be able to pull up what’s on the screen; otherwise, you may need to connect a monitor and turn it on.
I imagine it might be sitting at some equivalent of “CMOS defaults loaded, press F1 to continue, press F2 to enter setup” - I’m not sure of your exact hardware revision but you may be able to use the remote KVM feature to check on the console without actually having to hook up a KB/M.
OK! Keyboard/monitor hooked up, and honestly it seems like things are trying to load up and at the end I see:
The web interface could not be accessed.
Please check network configuration.
I did check the Uncle Fester’s reference but “Configuring Your Network” is to be written. My intention is that is just connects via DHCP and offers freenas.local as it’s hostname. Good references for that?
