Truenas Installation USB

Dear all,

first I’d like to let you know, that this installation is not my first “rodeo” :slight_smile: , so I do know what to do when installing new or other software on different hardware.

My first try was to install the core version which worked like a charm and it was also recognized by UEFI. Now here comes the catch…

Then I created a Scale boot usb with rufus with MBR and installed it I chose to also install the EFI Option when I was asked about it, but the hardware didn’t recognise the Boot ssd as UEFI but only as Legacy.

When I created the GPT Boot with Rufus and tried to boot it in UEFI - the legacy boot doesn’t work as you get a “rufus error” (that the disk was created for UEFI boot only). The UEFI boot brings me to grub and I don’t have a slightest Idea why.

Rufus config
The hardware DOES support UEFI :-)!

I’m running the “installed SSD” as legacy which is not a problem at all, but I’d still like to try running it as UEFI :slight_smile:

Thank you for your help!

Kind regards!

Rok

You don’t need Rufus. Most iso images are hybrid images you can just dd onto an usb stick.

Your Problem: Your boot device was MBR. So Linux started in legacy mode.

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Thank you!

Should I use Etcher instead of rufus?

Etcher will work.

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