Unable to install SCALE, able to install CORE

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So what’s the problem exactly?

thug-winnie

You might be surprised, but creating a Ventoy bootable USB can miraculously boot ISOs that would otherwise give you issues.

It has two “modes”. Each ISO is allowed to boot in “Regular” or “Grub 2” mode.

  1. Create a Ventoy stick
  2. Copy the .iso file directly to the FAT32 partition, which is labeled VENTOY[1]
  3. Boot from USB (preferably disabling CSM and “Secure Boot”, using pure EFI)
  4. Select the TrueNAS SCALE .iso file from the menu list
  5. Try booting it in Regular mode. If it fails, reboot and try again in Grub 2 mode.

  1. When you create a bootable Ventoy USB, the stick will have two partitions. One is the actual Ventoy bootloader and software, while the other is a plain empty partition (the remaining capacity of the stick) where you simply copy ISOs directly into it. No need to “dd” or use any fancy tools. You can dump dozens of bootable ISOs into a single USB stick, rather than wasting an entire stick just for one ISO. ↩︎

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