[FreeNAS Boot Failure]: If the boot device, HHD or USB drive, fails, how do you get FreeNAS up?

If the boot device, HHD or USB drive, fails, how do you get FreeNAS up?

► Power Off the system.

► Disconnect your boot drive and all data hard-drives from the system.

► Connect only your new boot drive, setup the drive on BIOS and reinstall FreeNAS on the new drive (hard drive, compact flash, USB ).

► Reboot the system and check if the FreeNAS installation is OK.

► Power Off the system, connect you data hard-drives back on the system.

► Start FreeNAS.

► If you have a back-up configuration file, you can restore it but you must remove the old mount point for your first drive/second partition and remove the old first drive.

► If you don’t have a back-up configuration file, just add all your drives, YOU DON’T NEED TO FORMAT ANY DRIVES and create the mount points for each drive.

Software RAID : If previously you use Software RAID, just add your drives on disks management, DON’T FORMAT THE DRIVES, built your Software RAID in the same way as before (DON’T FORMAT THE RAID ARRAY) and create the mount point for the RAID array.

► Setup the groups, users, services and you are back online.