#Openzfs install install
#Openzfs install serial
#Openzfs install software
#Openzfs install trial

The FreeNAS console UI is clearly designed to be compatible with serial.The ninth annual OpenZFS Developer Summit was held Nov 8-9, 2021. I'm guessing they'd like it to work if it isn't a bunch of work.

#Openzfs install serial

However, FreeBSD has very good serial console support, you just need to make sure the details are correct. As far as I know, all the TrueNAS gear sold by iX has both VGA and IPMI capabilities, so it's not something that is a real use case for them. Obviously, that won't work if you don't have a VGA port. The *vast* majority of people doing remote work on their FreeNAS systems do so over the network with IPMI or similar technologies. Serial seems to have been relegated to those of us who do infrastructure engineering, and need it for stuff like configuring networking gear, or OOB access. There are hobbyists today who are used to getting access to their microcontrollers via serial, but that seems to be something of an edge case. If you worked on older UNIX gear, you may have had experience with a DEC VTsomething as a console, but during the '90's and '00's I think a lot of that was lost. My guess is that the art of the serial console is too esoteric for most. If it's given as an option, and it doesn't work, I expect they'd be interested in fixing it.

#Openzfs install install

You could try posting a Jira ticket to see if you could tease somebody at iXsystems into verifying that the serial console install still works. I suspect that the serial install option is 'infrequently used', so if it worked in the past, I'm guessing that your problem isn't one of something like 'port isn't on COM1:'. I do serial consoles primarily to capture and record the output from crashes. Some of us have used them extensively for decades, and still set up new serial infrastructure when we set up new data centers, but we're very much a minority, and it has probably been quite some time since I've done a serial console install of FreeNAS, if I even ever have, because most of the gear out there supports ILO/IPMI/DRAC. Quite frankly, most people will never have used serial consoles.

#Openzfs install software

Neither I nor the other contributors are employees of iXsystems, with the exception of a few posters with iX badging in their user profiles.Д«eing rude in the form of 'more focus on selling their own branded storage boxes' is not fair iX is already giving you access to an enterprise-grade NAS software platform for free.Д«eing rude in the form of 'with such a big community, not getting even a single response' suggests you believe that random people out on the Internet owe you a solution of some sort. I have already tried creating the USB setup multiple time on multiple USBs using multiple creation software like Win32 Disk Imager & Rufus etc. This time around i wanted to do it the right way so configured serial console and have things working except the install keeps failing.

#Openzfs install trial

Last time that i installed FreeNAS it was a hit and trial as i installed FreeNAS on another system and then just put the USB on this device and it worked and got an IP from DHCP and the rest of the config i did from the web browser. I never did a fresh install of TrueNAS on the device before.

I was running FreeNAS on the same device as well in the past and i actually upgraded from FreeNAS to TrueNAS. I did manage to run TrueNAS on this device some time back and it was running fine for several months before i decided to do an update. But i get the below errors and the console stuck there. I select 2 as the option to install over Serial, since the device does not have any VGA output. I get to the point where the TrueNAS Installer screen shows up with the multiple options to install TrueNAS. I have manged to connect to the device over a serial console and have managed to change the BIOS boot setting to boot from the USB. My objective is to install TrueNAS on a WD Sentinal DX4000. So i have been banging my head against this for some time now.