How do i reboot the truenas system with out getting into this grub menu?

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Hello,

Im new to truenas community edition (scale) and so far i got a jellyfin server running successfully and learned alot so far. However theres one thing thats been stuck with. Everytime i reboot the system it goes to this grub menu that takes so long to even get it back to the web ip it needs too. I tried waiting and typing escape. I honestly tired of reinstalling truenas can anyone talk to me about this?

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Grub is just the bootloader TrueNAS uses.

If it takes long to get to grub, I would recommend you check your boot order in the BIOS.

Also if the installation was done with UEFI (recommended) disable legacy BIOS or fallback and also disable stuff like PXE boot.

But these are just wild guesses, you first have to tell us what is wrong and where you are stuck.

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well heres what happened, when i first installed truenas it booted like normal. it showed me the web ui ip address and everything. over time something happens and i have to reboot the pc then it goes straight to a command line screen grub 2.0 or something. i dont know any commands to get truenas back into the same ip address screen i should be in. it stays on the grub screen and i cant get back into the truenas ui because of it

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Ok. And what happens on that Grub 2.0 or something?

See, a boot process works as follows:

  • The BIOS initializes the hardware. During this stage, you may see the motherboard logo or messages such as “Press F2 to enter setup.” The BIOS then attempts to boot from the first bootable device, which should typically be your SSD (containing GRUB), not a CD-ROM drive.
  • GRUB loads and starts the TrueNAS operating system.
  • Once TrueNAS has finished booting, it displays the IP address at which the web interface (Web GUI) can be accessed.

so you tell us that you get into GRUB but somehow it gets stuck there?

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It’s also worth noting that:

  • TrueNAS just takes a while to boot–the boot process isn’t especially fast, and
  • TrueNAS is really intended to be running 24x7x365

So between those two things, so what if it takes five minutes to boot? It shouldn’t ordinarily take that long, but so what if it does?

If your concern is something other than that it takes longer than you’d like for the system to boot, please share pictures of the screens where you think there’s a problem. If you’re unable to post pictures, complete the forum tutorial you were invited to when you joined (it’ll be in your private messages).

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I guess it looks roughly like this.

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It means grub cannot find the root partition. I think I had something like this with a ssd with mbr partition hat needed to be gpt.

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Yup but all black

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It just stays there it never goes to the web ip addresses

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Any chance you have your config backed up? Have you tried a clean install?

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It does sound like it’s loading a vestigial grub install if it’s “getting stuck” at grub.

But I’m also concerned about the “something happens and I have to reboot the pc” part. That “something happens” might be the boot drive getting broke.

My hope is that they’re not using USB flash for the boot drive, because I’ve seen this personally and an overheated drive is usually the cause…

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That is the grub terminal. That means grub stopped, because it did not find any operation system to boot from. You could try and just type “exit” and “boot” and see what happens.

If that does not help, maybe look for “why does linux does not find boot partion” and see if anything applies to your situation.