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Freenas on old prebuilt hp pavilion

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Just think this will help others. If you want to use any oem PC like those bought off the shelf for freenas or any other os than the pre-installed os you need to tinker. All you need to do is open the BIOS then disable secure boot and enable legacy boot. After that disable the boot devices that doesn't apply to you and move the one you want to the top. Then reboot. If that failed then you need to enter the bios again and enable custom keys and clear keys. Then reboot. If this still hasn't worked do a sanity check and make sure you have a good iso and that it's selected. Then continue to tinker with combinations of these options. Worked for my server and many of the PC's I have to deal with at work.

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I wouldn't have thought this was needed. FreeNAS just installs and works in my experience. 

Main System: Phobos

AMD Ryzen 7 2700 (8C/16T), ASRock B450 Steel Legend, 16GB G.SKILL Aegis DDR4 3000MHz, AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB (XFX), 960GB Crucial M500, 2TB Seagate BarraCuda, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations/macOS Catalina

 

Secondary System: York

Intel Core i7-2600 (4C/8T), ASUS P8Z68-V/GEN3, 16GB GEIL Enhance Corsa DDR3 1600MHz, Zotac GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB, 240GB ADATA Ultimate SU650, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

 

Older File Server: Yet to be named

Intel Pentium 4 HT (1C/2T), Intel D865GBF, 3GB DDR 400MHz, ATI Radeon HD 4650 1GB (HIS), 80GB WD Caviar, 320GB Hitachi Deskstar, Windows XP Pro SP3, Windows Server 2003 R2

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17 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

I wouldn't have thought this was needed. FreeNAS just installs and works in my experience. 

With dell, hp, Lenovo and the like they lock it so only the drive with the os that they loaded works. So even something as simple as loading windows from a USB throws no boot drive found cause its not a recognized key and the UEFI doesn't support USB drive boot in older systems so legacy needs to be enabled. Among other reasons those are the most important.

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38 minutes ago, Turretgaming said:

With dell, hp, Lenovo and the like they lock it so only the drive with the os that they loaded works. So even something as simple as loading windows from a USB throws no boot drive found cause its not a recognized key and the UEFI doesn't support USB drive boot in older systems so legacy needs to be enabled. Among other reasons those are the most important.

I've never seen that, and I use Dell and HP systems for FreeNAS. 

Main System: Phobos

AMD Ryzen 7 2700 (8C/16T), ASRock B450 Steel Legend, 16GB G.SKILL Aegis DDR4 3000MHz, AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB (XFX), 960GB Crucial M500, 2TB Seagate BarraCuda, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations/macOS Catalina

 

Secondary System: York

Intel Core i7-2600 (4C/8T), ASUS P8Z68-V/GEN3, 16GB GEIL Enhance Corsa DDR3 1600MHz, Zotac GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB, 240GB ADATA Ultimate SU650, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

 

Older File Server: Yet to be named

Intel Pentium 4 HT (1C/2T), Intel D865GBF, 3GB DDR 400MHz, ATI Radeon HD 4650 1GB (HIS), 80GB WD Caviar, 320GB Hitachi Deskstar, Windows XP Pro SP3, Windows Server 2003 R2

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7 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

I've never seen that, and I use Dell and HP systems for FreeNAS. 

I have to deal with it daily at work on PC's with corrupted or infected os that needs a clean install cause it's so bad.

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