I've been running 11.2-U6 for over a year. All was fine until the system battery on the motherboard depleted and a neighborhood power failure occurred. Bios settings were lost and had to be reset. Afterwards, FreeNas boot cycle would hang at the point where it tried to mount the root from zfs: I assumed the problem was related to the dead system battery and lost Bios settings.
After the Bios reset and continued failed boot attempts, I decided to do an upgrade to 11.3-U4.1. However, the new version fails to load. It hangs after I identify the install disk and press OK. Any keystrokes after pressing the OK would produce garbled text outside the blue install box. I'm not sure if this is indicative of disk damage on the SanDisk SSD or WD data disk
PC: Dell Optiplex 960 (8 gb memory)
NAS boot disk: SanDisk SDSSDA 120G (allocated as Sata 0)
Storage Disk: WD WD30EFRX 3.0 TB "RED" (allocated as Sata1)
System diagnostics: Reported error logs for Sata1
In addition to acquiring help on tis problem, I'm seeking info on the following questions
1. Can a Windows 10 PC, with the proper hardware/software, read a data disk formatted by FreeNAS (I would like to verify integrity of the data on (SATA 1)
2. In addition to the above question, I would like to transfer any/all of its files to a temporary NTFS drive if maintenance or replacement of this drive is necessary
2. During the boot-up procedure, when FreeNAS is attempting to mount the root from zfs, is it referring to mounting the SATA 0 (system boot) or SATA1 (data)
3. When updating from one FreeNAS version to another, does the install overwrite the existing files on the install disk or does it perform a "format" or a "delete all" function before writing the new install?
After the Bios reset and continued failed boot attempts, I decided to do an upgrade to 11.3-U4.1. However, the new version fails to load. It hangs after I identify the install disk and press OK. Any keystrokes after pressing the OK would produce garbled text outside the blue install box. I'm not sure if this is indicative of disk damage on the SanDisk SSD or WD data disk
PC: Dell Optiplex 960 (8 gb memory)
NAS boot disk: SanDisk SDSSDA 120G (allocated as Sata 0)
Storage Disk: WD WD30EFRX 3.0 TB "RED" (allocated as Sata1)
System diagnostics: Reported error logs for Sata1
In addition to acquiring help on tis problem, I'm seeking info on the following questions
1. Can a Windows 10 PC, with the proper hardware/software, read a data disk formatted by FreeNAS (I would like to verify integrity of the data on (SATA 1)
2. In addition to the above question, I would like to transfer any/all of its files to a temporary NTFS drive if maintenance or replacement of this drive is necessary
2. During the boot-up procedure, when FreeNAS is attempting to mount the root from zfs, is it referring to mounting the SATA 0 (system boot) or SATA1 (data)
3. When updating from one FreeNAS version to another, does the install overwrite the existing files on the install disk or does it perform a "format" or a "delete all" function before writing the new install?