USB ISO will not boot

[SLNAS]

Hello!
I have read all the threads concerning this issue and nothing appears to have a working solution. Rather, what works for others appears to not work for me. It should not be this difficult to make a working installation USB.

I have downloaded TrueNAS CORE 12.0-U8 and followed the suggested instructions of using BalenaEtcher to create the install USB. After transferring the USB to a test device to test that it will boot, it does not. I have used BalenaEtcher, Rufus 3.18, and Win32DiskImager. None of them make a difference. However, when I create the install USB for TrueNAS SCALE, it will boot without issue.

I've downloaded versions of FreeNAS and the Beta version of TrueNAS. The only version that will boot is the TrueNAS SCALE. what am I missing?

 

[sretalla]

transferring the USB to a test device to test that it will boot

Would you like to help us to help you by being a little more specific about what hardware this is exactly?

I've downloaded versions of FreeNAS and the Beta version of TrueNAS. The only version that will boot is the TrueNAS SCALE. what am I missing?

If that's the case, there's a good chance your BIOS doesn't support the FreeBSD bootloader (which was adopted in Freenas 11.2... so 11.1 may be the last version you could run).

Since SCALE uses GRUB, it would seem that points to confirming my point by booting successfully.

 

[SLNAS]

Would you like to help us to help you by being a little more specific about what hardware this is exactly?

Its just a Dell 5410 Laptop. I'm only using it to test boot.

If that's the case, there's a good chance your BIOS doesn't support the FreeBSD bootloader (which was adopted in Freenas 11.2... so 11.1 may be the last version you could run).

Since SCALE uses GRUB, it would seem that points to confirming my point by booting successfully.

I have attempted to download 11.0 and it did not boot as well. However, the FreeBSD vs GRUB may be the issue. I'll need to research them both a bit more and hopefully find a solution.

That said, is there any benefit to scale vs core?

 

[sretalla]

I'm only using it to test boot.

Perhaps it would be much more useful to "test" on the final target system (and share your thoughts on what that will be with us).

If all you want to do is "kick the tyres" of TrueNAS CORE, put it in a VM (VirtualBox will run it just fine).

is there any benefit to scale vs core?

Perhaps you want me to summarize the marketing material for you? https://www.truenas.com/compare-editions/

SCALE can do containers, clustering for storage/shares (and for containers later), VMs with KVM and is Linux based.

CORE can do Jails and storage/shares (but no clusters), VMs with Bhyve and is FreeBSD UNIX based.

... and just to round out the list:

ENTERPRISE can do Jails and storage/shares (has the possibility to do High Availability with the right hardware selection), VMs with Bhyve, has enterprise support and is FreeBSD UNIX based. Runs only on iXsystems hardware.

All use OpenZFS

 

[danb35]

It'd probably be worth adding that CORE is a considerably more mature product at this time.