Nas4Free on Thin Client

[TheCaver]

Hello all

I will start off by saying trying this Nas4Free live is great thanks.


I have a Live and Embedded 32bit usb sticks which both boot and run great from the thin client i am trying to use it's a Dell Wyse R90L, 1ghz amd cpu single core, 2gb Ram, 40gb 44 pin ide hard drive.

Everything except the wifi is supported and it can see any usb hdd i plug in and even see the internal ata hard drive but it come up with cam error when booting and trying to install which is a real shame as it would be a super small and quiet system, i could run it off of the usb pen but i want to install the plex server using the jail so would really be more beneficial booting from the hdd.

I have read posts that say it can be a hdd waring out or faulty cable etc but windows xp,7, ubuntu, lubunto, mint and various other linux flavious will install just fine so dont know whats going wrong.

I instaleld the hdd into a desktop hp system and installed Nas4Free onto the hdd and all went without a hitch, swapped back to the thin client and boots till it starts to load ramdisk then says cant find rootfs.

Any Help?

[b0ssman]

Some old amd chipsets are not well supported under FreeBSD.

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[TheCaver]

it is seen as ata0 and can format under the webgui to fat, ntfs, ext2 but then cant mount the drive just says failed so could well be as its an amd6 chipset apart from this it works a treat as a server very quiet and low power.
is there anyway to check if its seeing everything as it should?

[Lee Sharp]

I have seen many systems that will "work" under Windows and Linux, but throw cam errors under FreeBSD. Funny enough, they are usually not as stable under Windows either, but no one notices...

Swap the cable, and clean out the ports to get rid of most of these. If they do not go away, swap drives. If the error moves, it is drive. If not, it is the port on the motherboard. And SATA cards are cheap...