Please help, I have no idea what I’m looking at. I think I have installed TrueNAS onto a 512 SSD drive placed on a PCIe slot with adaptor. All that comes up on my screen after the reboot is the following:
Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller Series v2.30 (08/31/09)
Client address: …….
GUID: …..
DHCP…*
And then says I need to: Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key.
I have no idea where to look, I have set the bios boot priority, the installation seems to have gone ok from the USB setup, but it looks like it can’t find the SSD? Ths installation software sees the SSD drive, not sure what I’m missing?
Looking at the my BIOS setup again, it looks like the SSD (PCIe) doesn’t show up, but the installation disc and the NAS installs onto it. How do I get the PC to boot from the SSD location? or am I just deluding myself?
Would you please post your complete hardware setup. Can you be more specific on how the boot drive is attached and with what hardware? Do you know the Realtek model number? Some give trouble, currently.
Just a guess, but if your BIOS / UEFI doesn’t give you the choice to boot from that drive, it may not be able to. A USB to M.2 adapter may be a better choice for your booting.
Thanks, your 100% correct, its the bios thats not up to it, and I cant even update the bios as HP dont support the units anymore. Thanks for you response, I’ll look into the USB thing.
Well this has been a bit of a roller coaster, to say the least. I’m all very new to this, so steep learning curve. So was busy getting familiar with the dashboard etc and updating users and transferring data. Then noticed that my time zone and keyboard layout was incorrect. So update the time zone, then keyboard layout, and wham it all just hung. Not sure what the hell happened. Either the SSD card / driver board collapsed, after investigation it looked like the USB driver m.2 had failed and the SSD drive was still OK. It looks like Truenas / GRUB can see things my PC can’t see, and I don’t know if that means they actually work or not, just seeing it doesn’t alway mean it works? I have ended up changing the motherboard so that I have a bios I can do something with, or so I think. Well nothing is straight forward, is it. Using a PCIe Express slot for the SSD drive, didnt look like it was working, but when I install TrueNAS it says all OK and can see it on my selection list, but when it comes to booting and running, nothing. So now I’m back to using a USB connected SSD drive, another one, not the original. And its all working. So I now see that there is supposedly a new version 25.10.3, so thinking install this first before I do anything else. Disaster, failed twice and ended up with a GRAB recovery. Ditched that idea and just sticking with 25.10.2.1 - Goldeye. One thing I’m very pleased with is that I thought I had lost all my data that I was busy transferring, well I haven’t. Fortunately I found that I can restore the data disc pool instead of “recreating” the data pool, phew. The biggest I seem to have now is that when the PC shuts down it doesn’t boot via the boot-pool disc, the PC bios is set up to use the USB drive as the 1st option, but something goes wrong, still trying to figure that one out……
