FreeNAS 0.7.2 Booting Error

[sdwillsmvr]

Morning All,

Firstly I would like to say I could not find anywhere to post problems with the legacy FreeNAS so thought I would post it in here. Im running FreeNAS 0.7.2 revision 8191 that was built on Sun Oct 9 19:21:38 JST 2011, FreeNAS is configured to run off a very small 4GB USB drive that uses a micro SD card and all the data is stored on 4 2TB SATA 3 drives that are using RAID 1 in 2 sets of 2.

Having been away for a little while not using my FreeNAS box I cam back and booted it and got presented with the following error screen:

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This is starting to appear more and more often at the minute but the system usually boots fine after a restart. Im not at all an expert in Unix operating systems and have to refer to online tutorials most of the time to get things done. Im guessing that this error has something to do with my USB drive that FreeNAS is booted from in that it might be on its way to the graveyard or it could be something else, I really dont have the knowledge to say either way.

If this drive is on its way out and I need to change over to a new one is their a way to mirror this USB drive into a new one as I dont really want to go through the hassle of installing my network driver again on a new USB drive.

Any help would be greatly accepted!

Thanks!

[raulfg3]

Save your FreeNas config, do a fresh install on a new USB key , and restore config.


USB key are degraded with time and use, so do not clone, use one new a do a fresh install.

[sacii]

You can boot from the LiveCD and then use the dd command from shell to clone the drive to another USB stick. That way you won't have to reinstall your network driver. However, you might also clone whatever problem is causing your USB stick not to boot. If that is the case, then you will have to install FreeNAS to a new USB stick and install the network driver to the new USB stick.

You should also run the following shell commands to get rid of the GPT table corruption that is evident on your screen shot:

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gpt -r recover /dev/ad8
gpt -r recover /dev/ad10

[sdwillsmvr]

Thanks for the replies, I thought it would need a new USB but thought I would check first.

@sacii, thanks for the code, been looking for something to get rid of those errors for a while!

[sdwillsmvr]

Since my old USB was heading to the graveyard I took the occasion to upgrade to NAS4Free which went very well thanks to the tutorials on this forum. Just waiting on a new Micro SDHC card but currently its all working on a temp USB drive. Also does the following code from above work under NAS4Free albeit replacing the ad8 with the new format of something like ada1?

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gpt -r recover /dev/ad8

[raulfg3]

Open new thread, and i think is safe to edit config.php

[sacii]

... does the following code from above work under NAS4Free...?

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gpt -r recover /dev/ad8

No, gpt replaced with gpart.