Another FreeNAS/BSD n00b here. Searched the forum for my answers and came up dry.
My FreeNAS install has gone bonkers and will not boot. Something about getty, I/O error, and throwing a bunch of "cannot locate file" errors. Maybe a power outage borked it. Tried to do an upgrade with the CD, went fine, and upon reboot it threw another error, reverted, and now I am back to square one. Safe mode, non-ACPI, etc don't work. FSCK'd a dozen times and it all came back clean. Let's just assume it cannot be salvaged and I need to reinstall a fresh copy of FreeNAS. I cannot access webGUI. And in true n00b fashion I did not backup my config.
Intel DH67BL mobo with i3, 4gb ram. FreeNAS is installed on a 4GB CF card in a CF-Sata adapter. I have an 8-drive RAID-6 on an ARECA 1222 with the entire array turned into an iSCSI target for my win7 workstation. The data on the array is important to me and I need to get to it. Please don't flame me for not using ZFS, I already know, and I wanted to use the hardware RAID. Now I am paying the price.
So:
1.) Is there an easy way to save/retrieve my config (particularly the iSCSI bits) without using the webGUI? I am able to get the boot menu and get into single-user mode CLI.
2.) If no to 1., if I wipe the entire boot drive and reinstall FreeNAS from scratch, is there a way to reinstate the old iSCSI target/extent and mount as normal through my win7 initiator?
3.) Is there an option that is easier? I just want at my data.
I really appreciate any help you guys can lend. Lesson learned on the save config. If anyone wants a crack at helping me diagnose why the existing install went bad, I will need to know how to dump the boot sequence messages to a log file...thanks guys.
My FreeNAS install has gone bonkers and will not boot. Something about getty, I/O error, and throwing a bunch of "cannot locate file" errors. Maybe a power outage borked it. Tried to do an upgrade with the CD, went fine, and upon reboot it threw another error, reverted, and now I am back to square one. Safe mode, non-ACPI, etc don't work. FSCK'd a dozen times and it all came back clean. Let's just assume it cannot be salvaged and I need to reinstall a fresh copy of FreeNAS. I cannot access webGUI. And in true n00b fashion I did not backup my config.
Intel DH67BL mobo with i3, 4gb ram. FreeNAS is installed on a 4GB CF card in a CF-Sata adapter. I have an 8-drive RAID-6 on an ARECA 1222 with the entire array turned into an iSCSI target for my win7 workstation. The data on the array is important to me and I need to get to it. Please don't flame me for not using ZFS, I already know, and I wanted to use the hardware RAID. Now I am paying the price.
So:
1.) Is there an easy way to save/retrieve my config (particularly the iSCSI bits) without using the webGUI? I am able to get the boot menu and get into single-user mode CLI.
2.) If no to 1., if I wipe the entire boot drive and reinstall FreeNAS from scratch, is there a way to reinstate the old iSCSI target/extent and mount as normal through my win7 initiator?
3.) Is there an option that is easier? I just want at my data.
I really appreciate any help you guys can lend. Lesson learned on the save config. If anyone wants a crack at helping me diagnose why the existing install went bad, I will need to know how to dump the boot sequence messages to a log file...thanks guys.