Install TrueNAS on Mac Pro (late 2013) from USB - After some normal messages continuously get "pcib8: Power fault detected"

[nobillgates]

Currently this is running very well with Debian 11 (Zorin 16.2, to be precise) but I got excited when I realised TrueNAS could run VMs and all my favourite media apps (nzbget, sonarr, radarr, qBittorrent and emby) as plugins so wanted to take advantage of this beastie, quite powerful even by today's standards.

So, I tried two different memory sticks (4Gb and 16Gb Corsair) in all the different USB ports, all to no avail.

After booting and allowing it to start the installation system it started scrolling the usual messages but suddenly (always at the same point, but they scroll so quickly impossible to say what immediately precedes this) the error occurs continuously:

[...]
"pcib8: Power fault detected"
...
...
...
[ad infinitum]
[...]

The only possible action is to power off and retry

I had also considered trying a self powered USB hub in which to plug the memory stick, but only if this is worthwhile.

I have trawled t'internet but not found anything quite like it. It could, of course, be a bone fida hardware error so I am stuck with what I have. It worked previously, and only a few days ago, when I installed Zorin, but faults can occur any time, eh?


MTIA

;-}
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System Information
Operating system: Debian Linux 11.0
Kernel and CPU: Linux 5.15.0-52-generic on x86_64
Processor information: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1650 v2 @ 3.50GHz, 12 cores
CPU temperatures: Core 1: 56°CCore 2: 53°CCore 3: 52°CCore 4: 54°CCore 5: 59°CCore 6: 52°C
System uptime: 30 minutes
Running processes: 511
CPU load averages: 0.75 (1 min) 0.51 (5 mins) 0.48 (15 mins)
Real memory: 4.06 GiB used / 416.62 MiB cached / 62.77 GiB total
Virtual memory: 0 bytes used / 1.99 GiB total
Local disk space: 51.69 GiB used / 21.1 TiB free / 21.15 TiB total

 

[Arwen]

At one time an 8GB boot drive was acceptable. But today, having a 16GB minimum is better. (TrueNAS keeps old boot environments as both backups and history.)

Really old CPUs, (your 10 year old Xeon), might have trouble running VMs because it may not include the necessary newer VM features. I don't have details, perhaps someone else can chime in.


In reality, using a 2013 computer is not really a good choice for a TrueNAS server. Let alone one for VMs or containers.