WOL vs Normal USB-stick boot

[Scareh]

I'm using the latest version off FreeNAS
Running on old pc with 1.2Gig of ram
When i normal boot the PC it runs smoothly, shares work, the entire FreeNAS works perfect.
(Normal boot means booting with start-up button)

Now I'm trying to get the WOL option to work. I'm using : http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/woli.aspx to sent the magic packet.
Using port 32767, it's forwarded in my router aswell. When i do the tcpdump option in the freeNAS shell, i see the packet arriving.

Now when i sent the packet something strange happens. The pc boots bit gives the following error: "This is a FreeNAS data disk and can not boot sustem. System halted."

Now after some googling I determined it was the boot order that was wrong (however it boots fine with normal bootprocedure)
I have 3 disks:

IDE 40 Gig
2 sata Disk 80/250Gig


In bios the boot order is like this:

USB Device First
Hard Drive (C: ) DISABLE
Broadcom Ethernet controller DISABLE


if needed i can upload pictures off my bios settings.


Hostname freenas.local
Build FreeNAS-8.2.0-RELEASE-p1-x86 (r11950)
Platform Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Memory 1259MB




Any suggestions on how I can let the pc boot from USB when using WOL?

thanks allready ^^

 

[cyberjock]

It sounds like when you use WOL the motherboard will not use USB devices to boot. I've seen that error before and I believe that happens when the system tries to boot from a hard drive instead of a USB drive. I'd look and see if you have a BIOS update that may fix the issue or try using a hard drive for the FreeNAS boot disk.

 

[Scareh]

my motherboard bios was at 1.1.
Hp D530 SFF.
I upgraded it to 2.44 (which is the last version atm)

The problem is still present unfortunately.
Any other suggestions on this topic?

 

[cyberjock]

It really sounds like your motherboard tries to boot from a hard disk instead of USB when you use WOL. Some manufacturers do that because they assume nobody would use WOL along with booting from a USB.

You have 2 option(at least, in my opinion):

1. Get a different motherboard.
2. Install FreeNAS to an internal hard drive and make it your boot device.

 

[chiraldude]

Ugh! Not the answer I was looking for. I have a HP DC7900, latest BIOS version and have the same issue. Even disabled hard disk boot in bios and it still tries to boot from the SATA disk.
I have a free e-SATA port so maybe I can transfer FreeNAS to a spare hard disk.
Or, just forget about WOL? The idea was to save money on electricity by waking up the NAS when it is time to run a backup job. The other thought was that the backups were safe from ransomware with the server turned off but maybe snapshots will accomplish a similar function. And/or I can run backups via FTP and disable SMB.