A few months ago my TrueNAS setup stopped resolving, and is instead now loading the Megarac login screen instead of TrueNAS.
This happened previously when it was FreeNAS and I can’t find any information on how I previously fixed it. It has obviously become incredibly frustrating since nothing on the network can communicate with TrueNAS at this time.
The hardware is a FreeNAS Mini-XL. Below is a screenshot of the login screen that gets served when accessing with web browser. Any suggestions or help? Thank you much.
To me, it seems to be loading the motherboard’s IPMI instead of the TrueNAS GUI… any chance you bridged them on the same physical ethernet port? I’d check BIOS & make sure IPMI has a different IP address & is on a different ethernet port.
This is a guess - I have no experience with specifically the Mini-XL. This just looks like something that I had previously ‘oopsied’ into when I was playing around with my ports, bios, and bridges.
Hmm… The only way I know to modify BIOS settings is to hook a monitor up to the Mini-XL itself, but it doesn’t seem to be outputting anything over VGA. Is there a way to remotely access BIOS ?
That was my first troubleshooting attempt. There are three ethernet ports. Two for network communication. I have swapped the cable between them. Each one has a different IP, but both display the ASROCK login screen.
Many IPMIs allow for remotely accessing the system as if you had keyboard/mouse connected, change (certain) bios settings without rebooting, etc . My mobo has these options for example.
So technically if you log into that page, you might have those options available to you.
That being said, never played with your hardware, hard to say. At worst, bute the bullet and collect a display for troubleshooting.
Or try only 1 ethernet port at a time & see what happens; if nothing, even more reason to consider connecting a display.
I can get into the IPMI but I don’t see anything that allows me to fix the situation. There isn’t any access to BIOS, but there is a “Network” tab. I have flipped through all of the settings but I am not seeing anything that jumps out as to where I should start. Any suggestions?
The IP address & the mac address in that tab, is that the same ip and/or mac you’re expecting to use for truenas? If so, that is why you have a conflict
I don’t remember what the MAC address was when it was working, but the IP was x.x.x.181 as opposed to the x.180 that it is now. This is what the ‘Network Settings’ page looks like. I am wondering if the Share LAN should be Dedicate LAN, but all that seems to do is allow me to enter the IPv4 configuration manually, not really set TrueNAS to an Ethernet port.
Have you verified what the server attached display shows when you have the server on? You know, the one listed for the web interface when the server has fully booted up, above the numbered menu.
It should list the IP TrueNAS will listen to.
I say this because even if you have Share LAN selected, the IPMI should not use the same IP as the OS (just the same physical interface), and by all appearances you are accessing the IPMI IP.
We’re two weeks into this and you haven’t hooked up a display to see? I mean, you should be able to use the remote console through the IPMI interface–but if that isn’t working, “plug in a monitor and turn it on” shouldn’t be that hard.
I thought I posted it in the original question but it seems it was omitted. I have connected a monitor to the VGA port but there is no display out. Obviously that would have been the simplest solution to at least see what was going on. I am not sure if that’s a broken video out or if it’s because of converter cables.
I am technically months into this thing. The remote console doesn’t launch either, it instead downloads a file that won’t launch in Firefox or Chromium.
The documentation link should help you get to a console. You might have to try using serial or rj45 to serial. It seemed to cover how to get the BIOS too. We can only go off what you post so we don’t know what you have or haven’t tried otherwise.
Yes and Yes. I am connected to the IPMI port and have access (as seen above). Unfortunately, I have gone through the features/tabs/options and there aren’t any that coordinate with the terminology used. There are no option for Out of Band management. I was hoping the screenshots included would help get alternate directions or maybe I am misinterpreting options that mean the same thing.
