FreeNAS-11.3-U2.1 Fails to Boot After a Successful Installation

[shwan_kr1]

Hello FreeNAS community,

I have installed FreeNAS-11.3-U2.1 on a Dell PowerEdge 730xd with 2 x Intel E5-2680 v3 CPUs and 64 GB of RAM. The server has an embedded PERC 330 mini RAID controller card, to which two HP SSD S700 500G disks are attached.
I booted FreeNAS installer from a USB, the installer strangely did not detect the two SSD disks, although they are configured in Non-RAID mode. So I had to configure them into a RAID1 virtual drive and boot the installer again. The installer this time detected the virtual drive and the installation went perfectly well. I had to choose BIOS as the boot mode because for some reason if I choose uEFI the server halts during POST.
So after the installation finished successfully I rebooted the server but I got the following error once FreeNAS was about to boot:
Booting from Hard drive C:
Shortening read at 4294965792 from 16 to -4160748064
Then values of CPU registers are shown as you see in the attached picture.
Any suggestion about what is causing this?

Thanks in advance!
Best regards,
Shwan

 

[shwan_kr1]

Since nobody could help me with this, I will try to find a workaround:
Can I install GRUB on a USB stick, boot the server with it and then load FreeNAS from that GRUB?

 

[Samuel Tai]

See https://forums.servethehome.com/ind...-card-to-hba330-12gbps-hba-it-firmware.25498/.

You need to flash the PERC first to IT mode before trying to install FreeNAS.