Hi,
After thinking for a long time, I finally used an ASUS P5B- Deluxe board, 6GB DDR2-800 RAM, 6 disks (SATA-II, 1TB each) and a 4GB USB stick tried to install FreeNAS 8.3 but no dice. Installation would be fine, but on booting it would say "Cannot find system disk" this despite making the USB as a HDD in BIOS (as people suggested) and booting from it. The CD-ROM was an external drive from where I installed FreeNAS and I would disconnect after installation completes and it goes to reboot. Gave up and used a PATA hard disk that I had laying around and installed to it and viola everything works in that I can boot FreeNAS off the PATA disk. Couple of question:
The motherboard has two NICs in it, is there something I should do specific to this board to ensure it works fine?
Any tuning that I should do before I start the system.
I will make it raidz1 so will have 5TB capacity, any expert see something wrong there?
Thank you in advance for your suggestions/gentle criticisms...
After thinking for a long time, I finally used an ASUS P5B- Deluxe board, 6GB DDR2-800 RAM, 6 disks (SATA-II, 1TB each) and a 4GB USB stick tried to install FreeNAS 8.3 but no dice. Installation would be fine, but on booting it would say "Cannot find system disk" this despite making the USB as a HDD in BIOS (as people suggested) and booting from it. The CD-ROM was an external drive from where I installed FreeNAS and I would disconnect after installation completes and it goes to reboot. Gave up and used a PATA hard disk that I had laying around and installed to it and viola everything works in that I can boot FreeNAS off the PATA disk. Couple of question:
The motherboard has two NICs in it, is there something I should do specific to this board to ensure it works fine?
Any tuning that I should do before I start the system.
I will make it raidz1 so will have 5TB capacity, any expert see something wrong there?
Thank you in advance for your suggestions/gentle criticisms...