Dude said save config or dont, reinstall on right drive, upload config
I now have truenas installed on two of the drives but in the dashboard its still using the big drive as the boot-pool, The next step in the youtube tutorial is create new pool but I cant get past that cause the hard drive is the boot pool, I dont have a config per se ive never made it past installing never created a pool never used this software before Im looking for the total noob help option.
You need to boot from the install medium again and this time install to your boot/system drive. You do have a dedicated smaller boot drive, don’t you? Because TrueNAS requires one.
You just installed to the wrong drive. Install again picking the right one this time.
Yes i have truenas iso on a thumb drive. I have 3 drives, 256GB/2TB/20TB. The smaller 2 are nvme and the 20tb is a 3.5in. The first time I installed i didnt know i needed multiple drives so i installed on the only one I had the 20tb. I read one has to be a boot pool so I looked at the allocated space on my drive and it was 1.5tb so I got a 2tb nvme, unplugged the 20tb and booted from the thumb drive. I installed truenas again on the 2tb. Shutdown and reconnected the 20tb. When i relaunch and goto the dashboard its sees all 3 but show still shows the boot-pool on ada0 (20tb) I cant add it when trying to create a new pool. But I can add the 2tb and 256g. I assume its just launching the sofware from the 20tb install but even if i change the boot order in bios it still does it.
If I understood well, you just installed the system and did not add data yet. In that case, just start installation again.
Be sure to have one small drive, preferably SSD, only for operating system and at least one large for data. OS and data should be on separate drives, so install the system on the smallest one.
After that, you can add data, configure users, shares, etc.
Right I have 0 data, the drives are completely empty except for truenas. but dont i have to be able to add the 20tb drive when “creating a new pool” if i want to use it as media storage
Ok so we got somewhere but still unsolved. I disabled the large drive from the available override list in BIOS. Truenas would not boot despite being installed on the 2tb and having it selected as the first and only boot option in BIOS.
So i used the iso to reinstall a fresh TN onto the 2tb. It says completed succesfully, i remove the thumbdrive and get the same message “insert a bootable drive and press any key.”
BUT I now have a new option to boot from in BIOS “UEFI OS[m.2 pcie etc…]2000GB” it WILL boot truenas but in the loader i get "mounting zfs:boot-pool/ROOT/default failed with error 2 retries and Im at mountroot>
EDIT: it will boot truenas splash screen but when i choose to run the loader i get the mounting error 2
EDIT2: I try ufs:/dev/nvd1 “failled with error 2 retrying”
It’s difficult to diagnose the precise cause of your issues, but there are a couple of steps you could try:
remove all disks but the boot drive (if in hot swap cages, just pull them a bit)
set your BIOS boot method to UEFI only
this is sometimes not named this way - if there is anything like “CSM” in the BIOS, disable it
disable secure boot
If that does not lead into a clean boot right away, reinstall, make sure you pick (U)EFI only.
Until TrueNAS does not boot reliably from that NVMe drive, there is absolutely no point in messing with the other drives you have. This needs to be solved first.
ITS WORKING!!! LETS GOOO! It was CSM, with it turned off the only option was “UEFI OS[m.2 pcie etc…]2000GB” and it booted straightaway Formatted the big drive were good to go BIG thank you!!