Problems with booting from USB with 9.3

[cliffb]

Greetings All,

Problems arising again with 9.3 booting from USB on Supermicro motherboards:

X10SLH-F motherboard board, rev. 2 bios (4-24-2014)
Intel E3-1230lv3 CPU
2 x 8 G/b RAM with ECC
4 x 1 TB Seagate drives

Have tried 4 Gb and 8 Gb USBs at 32kb and 64kb block sizes, in each of the internal and extenal USB drives, but no joy.

USB stick appears to be recognized, but boot hangs and screen shows "GRUB _", with _ being a flashing cursor.

Supermicro's motherboard manual lists default values for the bios settings, but the manual is for rev. 1.0 and the board is running with most recent bios 2.0. There are some new settings in ver. 2.0 compared to 1.0 and some of the previous bios values in 1.0 are changed in 2.o. Will try to call supermicro to get their take.

Have noted one poster's success with booting from an internal SSD, but would prefer not to spend min. 50 EUR and one internal SSD slot for boot medium.

Possible next steps:
- use a different brand of usb stick (Verbatim used previously)
- use windows-based method for creating boot USB (Linux used previously)
- ??

Any thoughts would be appreciated, and thanks,

Cliffb

 

[cliffb]

A follow-up,

Have considered trying to create a legacy 9.2 boot USB and doing an upgrade to 9.3 versus a free install. Has anyone tried that?

Does the FreeNAS site have a legacy iso of the 9,2 version?

Thanks again,

-Cliffb

 

[dlavigne]

Does the FreeNAS site have a legacy iso of the 9,2 version?

Yup: http://download.freenas.org/.

 

[Ericloewe]

If the BIOS option "legacy USB support" is off, turn it on. It's possible that Grub might need that to boot.

 

[cliffb]

issued solved by writing the iso to the USB using windisk imager. thanks to everyone for the suggestions. installer now hangs with error 19 message, but believe there is some guidance about how to circumvent this issue.

 

[cliffb]

issued solved by writing the iso to the USB using windisk imager. thanks to everyone for the suggestions. installer now hangs with error 19 message, but believe there is some guidance about how to circumvent this issue.

disabling xhci seems to have fixed the error 19 hang
-cliffb