FreeNAS/ZFS – tkrn's blog

unifi6 in a FreeNAS iocage Jail FreeBSD

Posted on January 21, 2021by tkrn1 Comment

The community plugins for the mainstream release of FreeNAS 11.3 has a community plugin repository. It does feature the Unifi Controller version 5. If you’re looking for the Unifi 6.x code stream you’ll need to build a jail manually. Below you will find the quick guide to manually setup a Unifi6 jail in BSD.

[VIDEO + SYNTAX] LSI SAS/SATA Controller Flash into IT Mode for FreeNAS/ZFS

Posted on September 23, 2019by tkrnLeave a comment

LSI SAS/SATA Firmware BIOS FlashLSI SAS/SATA Firmware BIOS Flash

Below is the video tutorial on how to flash your LSI SAS Controller into IT mode for use by FreeNAS/ZFS! The video below assumes you’ve already made a bootable FreeDOS USB or ISO and have inserted the boot media into your server. If you’re not sure how to create the required ISO/USB bootable media skip […]

FreeNAS 11 “Boot Failed. EFI Misc Device” Fix (Debian)

Posted on March 15, 2019by tkrn1 Comment

After a recent creation of a virtual machine using a Debian 9.5 netinstall image on the Bhyve type-2 hypervisor provided by FreeNAS 11, I kept on hitting a re-occurring error: “Boot Failed. EFI Misc Device”. After much troubleshooting, the resolution is straight forward. During the Debian install and the UEFI implementation of Bhyve causes an […]

Deluge Client in a FreeNAS 11 iocage Jail Easy Tutorial

Posted on July 17, 2018by tkrn6 Comments

FreeNAS 11 introduces a new way to manage jails, iocage. As FreeNAS transitions there is a gap for users that leveraged precreated plugins in previous versions of FreeNAS. This guide will help you create a jail in, assign users, permissions and installing Deluge the BitTorrent client in an iocage managed jail. SSH into FreeNAS as […]