Hi guys,
My first post here so please be kind :)
I've just built my first FreeNAS setup. Based on some reviews here and on the web I went with an Asus E35M1-I motherboard with AMD E-350 and 4x2Tb disks.
I want to install FreeNAS on a USB thumb but here is the problem. I've successfuly created the USB bootable disk (I've tested two, on two different computers and could boot to FreeNAS menu) but when I plug it in my NAS, it just doesn't boot... I've tried to play with the USB options in the BIOS but nothing did the trick. If I put in the BIOS to consider the USB as a CD it hangs on a black screen with blinking prompt on top, and when I say to consider the USB thumb as HDD it simply says "Please insert a bootable device and press any key"... The only thing left that I see is that I've used the FreeNAS-8.0.3-RELEASE-p1-x64 image, and was wondering to test the x86. But I'm sure that's not the problem...
So if you have any piece of advice to give me, would be great to hear :)
My first post here so please be kind :)
I've just built my first FreeNAS setup. Based on some reviews here and on the web I went with an Asus E35M1-I motherboard with AMD E-350 and 4x2Tb disks.
I want to install FreeNAS on a USB thumb but here is the problem. I've successfuly created the USB bootable disk (I've tested two, on two different computers and could boot to FreeNAS menu) but when I plug it in my NAS, it just doesn't boot... I've tried to play with the USB options in the BIOS but nothing did the trick. If I put in the BIOS to consider the USB as a CD it hangs on a black screen with blinking prompt on top, and when I say to consider the USB thumb as HDD it simply says "Please insert a bootable device and press any key"... The only thing left that I see is that I've used the FreeNAS-8.0.3-RELEASE-p1-x64 image, and was wondering to test the x86. But I'm sure that's not the problem...
So if you have any piece of advice to give me, would be great to hear :)