My FreeNAS box won't bootup after a shutdown

[avalon60]

I shut my FreeNAS box down to install another HD , and after doing so I had to rearrange some of the sata cables.
After switching back on the boot sequence is juast going round in circles and won't or can't the USB Boot drive.
So I put everything back the way it was before but still the same problem.

I have checked the BIOS to make sure the USB drive is the 1st boot option, but it is not been seebnfor some odd reason.

 

[Jailer]

Is your usb stick being detected by the BIOS?

 

[Mirfster]

Is this just a continuation of any of these?:

• "Can't install FreeNAS 9.10 on USB drives"
  • Thread started May 19th, 2016
• "Boot volume degraded"
  • Thread started May 18th, 2016

 

[Jailer]

Is this just a continuation of any of these?:

• "Can't install FreeNAS 9.10 on USB drives"
  • Thread started May 19th, 2016
• "Boot volume degraded"
  • Thread started May 18th, 2016

Good lord.........

 

[ethereal]

i would recommend an ssd over usb flash drives - so much better.

you can test your flash drives with Flash Drive Tester.

you are obviously having a lot of problems with your flash drives. i would remove one of the drives at a time and see which is causing the problem then eat it (or both)

 

[avalon60]

Is your usb stick being detected by the BIOS?

Yes both of them are,. The Transcend USB drive is the 1st boot option under boot option priorities.

Amazing, I have swapped the USB priorties from the Transcend Drive to the Sandisk Cruzer drive, and it is booting now.
The said drive is a mirror of the Transcend drive!!

 

[avalon60]

Good lord.........

Is this just a continuation of any of these?:

• "Can't install FreeNAS 9.10 on USB drives"
  • Thread started May 19th, 2016
• "Boot volume degraded"
  • Thread started May 18th, 2016

No as it bootedup ok from the Transcend Jetflast USB 3.0 drive earlier this morning, and then I added the Sandisk Cruzer Blade 16GB USB 2.0 Mirrored Boot Drive. I rebooted after that and all was well, so I then shutdown the NAS box and did what I wanted, but as per original post it didn't boot back up

 

[avalon60]

i would recommend an ssd over usb flash drives - so much better.

you can test you flash drives with Flash Drive Tester.

you are obviously having a lot of problems with your flash drives. i would remove one of the drives at a time and see which is causing the problem then eat it (or both)

I was thinking of getting a small ssd drive for this.

 

[ethereal]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-320-S...425007?hash=item1a13ce1e6f:g:4gkAAOSwfC9XPLDl

$24 - free shipping -buy it now

the intel 320 is good ssd

 

[avalon60]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-320-S...425007?hash=item1a13ce1e6f:g:4gkAAOSwfC9XPLDl

$24 - free shipping -buy it now

the intel 320 is good ssd

I'm in the UK, else I would buy it now.

 

[ethereal]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Intel-SSD...121137?hash=item3cf5d084b1:g:fk4AAMXQ7j1SLit6

i didn't know where you were

 

[ethereal]

i did have a pair of flash usb and they didn't last very long - because there were two - the problems seemed twice as much.

i got a second hand 40 GB intel 320 ssd and it was still under warranty because it was based on writes rather than when it was produced/purchased.

my ssd does faster installs/upgrades and a little faster with booting

 

[avalon60]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Intel-SSD...121137?hash=item3cf5d084b1:g:fk4AAMXQ7j1SLit6

i didn't know where you were

Leeds, UK

 

[avalon60]

The trouble is that I have ran out of sata connections toadd a ssd drive. I have a total of 8 drives installed, 6 on the board and 2 on a pcie card.

 

[avalon60]

i did have a pair of flash usb and they didn't last very long - because there were two - the problems seemed twice as much.

i got a second hand 40 GB intel 320 ssd and it was still under warranty because it was based on writes rather than when it was produced/purchased.

my ssd does faster installs/upgrades and a little faster with booting

Out of interest, what make of flash drives did you have ?

 

[ethereal]

SanDisk Cruzer Fit - USB flash drive

 

[Dice]

Here is an auction of a drive that is actually located in the UK:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Intel-320...470537?hash=item35ffb750c9:g:7UoAAOSwJQdW9TeD