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I can boot from 3.1.5-GA ISO into a VirtualBox VM. But when I boot from a bootable CD, it stops at "Grub Stage2", and then drops me into a grub rescue shell after a few seconds..

I know very well how to burn bootable CDs etc. I have used 2 different CDs, burnt them with 2 different programs, tried to boot different machines with different CD drives.

Why can't it go beyond grub's Stage-2? Any thoughts, experiences? Or should I try older versions? if anybody knows about their archived release, please share? Their forums are too slow. Or should I stick to FreeNAS, or better yet learn ZFS the hard-way?

Edit: If I use an older release, would their license generation work with that older release? I don't think they would support older releases..

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    :( I'd keep looking. Nexenta isn't a great choice right now.
    – ewwhite
    Dec 10, 2013 at 18:57
  • Why do you say that Sir? I think you say so because Nexenta isn't playing well with the community any more, their publicly available beta releases are too old, they don't share any nightly builds anymore?
    – Junaid
    Dec 10, 2013 at 19:03
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    Learn ZFS the hard way. In the past I've used both FreeNAS and Nexenta, and in both cases, I ended up wanting to do things with ZFS that weren't exposed in their GUI, meaning that I needed to learn the ZFS cli commands anyway. Install FreeBSD and learn things from the ground up - you'll be much more future-proof that way.
    – EEAA
    Dec 10, 2013 at 19:24
  • @Junaid All of the above... I've been using ZFS on Linux with RHEL/CentOS mainly since Nexenta stopped being responsive to my needs.
    – ewwhite
    Dec 11, 2013 at 18:48
  • @ewwhite: According to this (zfsonlinux.org/faq.html#PerformanceConsideration), ZFS-on-Linux is not yet optimized for performance, so probably actual ZFS with "tiered" storage is the way to go for building efficient storage arrays.. Probably FreeNAS/NAS4free would be the easier way to go for any easy-to-manage ZFS install. FreeNAS lets one very easily configure LARC and ZILs from the GUI just like nexenta.
    – Junaid
    Dec 12, 2013 at 8:10

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