Error Unable to GPT format the disk "ada0"

[Epicness35]

Hi,
I have recently wiped my hard drive (an old seagate barracuda 80 gb one with sata 2) and reinstalled freenas on it. I run the initial wizard, but at the end, it says at the top of the screen in green "Error unable to GPT format the disk "ada0". What do I do?

 

[nightshade00013]

http://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/forum-rules.22553/#post-134570/

• System Configuration Information: Items marked with an asterisk “*” are required for a failure postings. However, all items are recommended and could simply be part of your tag-line.

1. * FreeNAS version (ex. “FreeNAS 9.2.1.6-Release 64-bit”)
2. * Hardware:
3. * Motherboard (Model)
4. * CPU (Model)
5. * RAM Size (in GB and model)
6. Hard Drives (Model), Quantity, and RAIDZ configuration
7. Add-On cards
8. For network connectivity, include details on your network hardware/configuration.

 

[Epicness35]

I am using Freenas 9.10 stable, with an Intel gigabit pci nic card. I have an intel pentium d inside, and 3 gigabytes of ram. Not really sure about motherboard, it is an old dell one, with "dm061" loading up on start.

 

[maglin]

Your hardware isn't even close to spec. Put 8 GB of ram in it and it might work.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[Epicness35]

I used Freenas 9.3 before I cleared the hard drive using DBAn, and it worked perfectly fine with 100 MB/s read and writes, still with 3 GB of ram, so i don't think that is the problem...

 

[JDCynical]

I used Freenas 9.3 before

FreeNAS 9.3 != 9.10, there were some rather big changes under the hood between the two versions.

 

[Epicness35]

So what do you recommend I do to fix this? Do I run DBAn again? Sorry if I have noob questions. I am really new to FreeNAS.

 

[mythras]

I found this in youtube, maybe it can be a solution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgosZvjnSlA

 

[mythras]

It workt for me though

 

[fta]

Look in /var/log/debug.log to see what is failing. You'll need to look at it immediately after the failure (lots out stuff gets put in the debug log).

 

[Epicness35]

Two questions, how do I log in with SSH, and how do I look in /var/log/debug.log? Like where do I access it?

 

[mythras]

You login with putte, this is a little program you can download for windows. Is you want to read var/log/debug.log you can use follow command. less /var/log/debug.log

 

[mythras]

The program is putty

 

[Epicness35]

Okay thanks is logging in with SSH built in or are there other steps needed?

 

[mythras]

I think it's already building in. So Just download putty and install in Windows. Open putty and put in the ip adres of your freenas server.

 

[nightshade00013]

May have to go into the services tab and turn it on but after that it should work for the main system.

 

[Epicness35]

May 20 00:00:00 freenas newsyslog[64060]: logfile turned over due to size>100K
May 20 02:28:01 freenas update_check.py: [freenasOS.Configuration:553] TryGetNetworkFile(['http://update.freenas.org/FreeNAS/trains.txt', 'http://update-master.freenas.org/FreeNAS/trains.txt'])
May 20 02:28:01 freenas update_check.py: [freenasOS.Configuration:666] TryGetNetworkFile(['http://update.freenas.org/FreeNAS/trains.txt', 'http://update-master.freenas.org/FreeNAS/trains.txt']): Read 426 bytes total
May 20 02:28:01 freenas update_check.py: [freenasOS.Configuration:553] TryGetNetworkFile([u'http://update-master.freenas.org/FreeNAS/FreeNAS-9.10-STABLE/LATEST'])
May 20 02:28:02 freenas update_check.py: [freenasOS.Configuration:666] TryGetNetworkFile([u'http://update-master.freenas.org/FreeNAS/FreeNAS-9.10-STABLE/LATEST']): Read 8192 bytes total
May 20 02:28:02 freenas update_check.py: [freenasOS.Configuration:553] TryGetNetworkFile(['https://web.ixsystems.com/updates/ix_crl.pem'])
May 20 02:28:02 freenas update_check.py: [freenasOS.Configuration:666] TryGetNetworkFile(['https://web.ixsystems.com/updates/ix_crl.pem']): Read 1028 bytes total
May 20 02:28:02 freenas update_check.py: [freenasOS.Manifest:405] Verify command = ['/usr/local/libexec/verify_signature', '-K', '/usr/local/share/certs/freenas-update.pem', '-C', '/usr/local/share/certs/iX-CA.pem', '-S', u'IxPzRcbef7SHDr4w9MAGGx+uJIDEr+ACZFFXg9TKAYC15CQcNVi7NpiEUtMo3Q5wbDBh4deo+g716iV3Lr89MC+OlRx8xeti71oQAkH/1zTj4L25r4YloO/U8j594iVb6eFjJnDmwfEVArhSPaELtRDYFFRdmYWT2NG3w1k2Zgw=', '

I ran the debug.log and this is what happened. Is there anything wrong?

 

[Chris Moore]

Was there a solution to this?
I have a problem that might be similar:

Jun 4 00:42:51 New-NAS notifier: dd: /dev/da14: Operation not permitted
Jun 4 00:42:51 New-NAS manage.py: [middleware.exceptions:37] [MiddlewareError: Unable to GPT format the disk "da14"]

 

[Epicness35]

No, not really. I had the get a sata to esata Cable and plug it in to my Windows computer and format it as NTFS, and re install Freenas, which now works

 

[Chris Moore]

I have had this happen a couple of times now and in both instances there was a partition on the disk that FreeNAS would not wipe. I put the disk in Windows, deleted the partition and then FreeNAS would use the disk.