any freenas experts here please?

ginjim

ok i kind of installed it but every time i reboot the computer asks to boot from cd all the time

the pc says
freenas has been installed on ad0s1
you can now remove the cd-rom and reboot the pc

to use the Data partition:
1. add the disk ad0 on the disks:management page.
2.Add the mount point on the disks:mount point' page
use the following parameters:
Disk ad0, partition 2, filesystem UFS


DO NOT FORMAT the drive ad0! THE DATA partition has ben formated for you as part of the installation

Press ENTER to continue


ok if i reboot the PC -the computer finds nothing and asks to boot from CD

Could someone explain where I am going wrong please?
Many thanks

b33r

Afraid I don't know the solution, im building a NAS soon and will be giving freenas a shot but only know limited about it at the mo.

Best place to try would be the FreeNas help forum which is here

EDIT: lol i see you already have, hope you get your answer.

Conor_3

Do you have MBR Write Protect or Virus Guard / similar in your BIOS that prevents the Master Boot Record being overwritten thus not allowing the bootloader to be installed?

ginjim

Conor wrote: »

Do you have MBR Write Protect or Virus Guard / similar in your BIOS that prevents the Master Boot Record being overwritten thus not allowing the bootloader to be installed?

thaks but where can ifind that please?
had a look in bios but cant find anything
am using a new hard drive
it says it installs ok
but when i reboot it asks to boot from cd:mad:

ginjim

well i tried my setting and virus waring is off
so no idea whats wrong

Conor_3

Is the partition Freenas is installed to marked as Active?

ginjim

yes everything is ok
somehow it doesn't boot up
on bios is there a way of finding out if there is anything installed on thr hdd by way of disk space used and disk space available?
guess 34mb ispretty minimal

hendersonb

You can use a FreeBSD boot cd to access the disk and view what is on it - sounds like an incorrectly configured bootloader. Although never had a problem with FreeNAS other than a few limitations it has.