OK, he's what happened:
Running 11.1-u5 on some SuperMicro hardware (X11 board) and it was working mostly fine. FreeNAS was installed on two USB 3 drives as mirror, but one had failed. Disconnected the failed drive and mirrored to an internal SSD. Thought it was fine after a reboot, and decided to remove that USB (since it would likely fail in the near future, this is the third drive of this model to fail) and mirror boot to a second SSD. Status reported that everything was good with resilvering both SSD, so I tried a reboot...
Nothing, no bootable drives. Check in BIOS and make sure that these SSD are listed to be able to boot, and restart again. Still nothing. Put the USB drives back in and restart, still no bootable drives...
So now I'm left with choices, and asking what choices I may have.
#1 is there an easy fix to make the SSD's bootable?
#2 do I go back to the 11.1-u5 install disk and do a clean install, then restore the back up config?
#3 something else?
I do have a recent system back up file, but I've never had to recover a system from the file. Do I simply restore that file into the system after a clean install and everything is good. Or do I need to import the volumes first, then restore the backup file?
I do have a second FreeNAS 11.1-u5 up if I need to attach those SSD to it and run some commands from a FreeBSD terminal. Hoping for a simple way to copy some files to these SSD to make them bootable, but I'll do whatever is easiest. Need this up and running in the next few days, thankfully our students are on break this week so I have a little time to fix this.
And sorry for what is probably a very basic question, in panic I did a quick search but not very thorough so please forgive my haste in posting.
Greg
Running 11.1-u5 on some SuperMicro hardware (X11 board) and it was working mostly fine. FreeNAS was installed on two USB 3 drives as mirror, but one had failed. Disconnected the failed drive and mirrored to an internal SSD. Thought it was fine after a reboot, and decided to remove that USB (since it would likely fail in the near future, this is the third drive of this model to fail) and mirror boot to a second SSD. Status reported that everything was good with resilvering both SSD, so I tried a reboot...
Nothing, no bootable drives. Check in BIOS and make sure that these SSD are listed to be able to boot, and restart again. Still nothing. Put the USB drives back in and restart, still no bootable drives...
So now I'm left with choices, and asking what choices I may have.
#1 is there an easy fix to make the SSD's bootable?
#2 do I go back to the 11.1-u5 install disk and do a clean install, then restore the back up config?
#3 something else?
I do have a recent system back up file, but I've never had to recover a system from the file. Do I simply restore that file into the system after a clean install and everything is good. Or do I need to import the volumes first, then restore the backup file?
I do have a second FreeNAS 11.1-u5 up if I need to attach those SSD to it and run some commands from a FreeBSD terminal. Hoping for a simple way to copy some files to these SSD to make them bootable, but I'll do whatever is easiest. Need this up and running in the next few days, thankfully our students are on break this week so I have a little time to fix this.
And sorry for what is probably a very basic question, in panic I did a quick search but not very thorough so please forgive my haste in posting.
Greg