Hello all,
Would appreciate some help in solving something that I’ve been dealing with for a while. Essentially, on both my main and backup boxes (using quite similar hardware - more on this in a bit), I can’t get to TrueNAS to boot at all - not even the installer, booting from a fresh USB drive - unless I select option 2 at the loader prompt (‘console’ or something). Unless I do that, TrueNAS just does a tiny bit of boot-up magic, then gets stuck to a white cursor in the top left. If I select 2, it boots up fine - I’ve been running my main rig like this for a while now. But this was always a temporary solution, for obvious reasons.
Had some time yesterday, so I wanted to try to get to the bottom of this. I tried to edit a tuneable, to have the system default to console on boot. Used this thread:
Essentially:
System → Tunables → Add
Type: loader
Variable: console
Value: comconsole
But now, it goes straight to my white cursor - can’t even trigger the loader prompt, it doesn’t even come up at all. I’ve tried playing around with some of the boot settings in the BIOS, but that didn’t do anything. Can’t select legacy mode cuz I don’t have a GPU (have an old 5450 somewhere that I could dig up if I really needed to - but I feel it shouldn’t be needed…?), can only choose ‘Other System’ in Secure Boot (vice Windows-specific UEFI) otherwise it won’t boot at all, understandably - but other than that there’s little I can see in BIOS that could help.
I know I could re-install and everything, but the main issue will still be there.
I’ll use the hardware in my backups box for now to illustrate:
Asus Z590-A PRIME
Celeron G6400
16GB DDR4 RAM (stock timings, no XMP or any other silliness - 2133 I think…?)
6 x WD Red 3TB drives, 4 x connected to LSI 9211 in IT mode, 2 x connected to the mobo’s SATA ports
2 x Patriot 128GB 2.5" SSD boot disks, mirrored, connected to mobo SATA
This is running (and trying to re-install) CORE 13.0-U6.7. I know it’s a deprecated version now but I just wanted to make sure this was sorted before I started migrating to SCALE.
With regards to the hardware - yes, I know this is consumer-grade hardware, and not Supermicro. My previous builds (might even be in my sig here…? unless that didn’t get migrated to the new forums), both in the main and backups boxes but also in my pfSense rig, all had Supermicro boards, that pretty much ran flawlessly, but were getting long in the tooth (couldn’t even run their IPMIs anymore). I’m not ruling out buying Supermicro boards if it comes to that (the X12SCA-F would likely be the best bet with my current hardware) but I’d like to think I can make this current hardware work.
Much obliged, thank you so - and congrats for having made it this far! =)