# Freenas server not booting

**URL:** <https://forum.freenas-community.org/t/freenas-server-not-booting/298>\
**Category:** Help & Support\
**Created:** [December 7, 2024, 5:32pm UTC](https://forum.freenas-community.org/t/freenas-server-not-booting/298 "2024-12-07T17:32:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Davester](https://forum.freenas-community.org/user_avatar/forum.freenas-community.org/davester/32/131_2.png) [@Davester](https://forum.freenas-community.org/u/Davester)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2024, 5:32pm UTC](https://forum.freenas-community.org/t/freenas-server-not-booting/298/1 "2024-12-07T17:32:43Z")

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Hi. I built a FreeNAS server like maybe 7 or 8 years ago. It has been trouble free but now it is not booting.

 ![screenshot-FreeNAS errors booting](https://discourse-freenas-community.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/1X/70739e7842e28afca40f642a1f968b4a3ad64e7f.jpeg)

It is a supermicro server motherboard. I’m guilty of not giving this any love, haven’t had a monitor connected to it for years until today when i found it offline.

I remember using a USB thumb drive inside it for the boot up. Maybe I have to recreate that ? It’s an old version of FeeNAS.

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**Author:** ![Davester](https://forum.freenas-community.org/user_avatar/forum.freenas-community.org/davester/32/131_2.png) [@Davester](https://forum.freenas-community.org/u/Davester)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2024, 5:43pm UTC](https://forum.freenas-community.org/t/freenas-server-not-booting/298/2 "2024-12-07T17:43:49Z")

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I rebooted it a third time and it booted up ok.

I think it might be a great time to do some preventative maintenance / preparation for a failure. Like maybe cloning the USB drive, as I don’t know how to recreate it. Would there be a way to make a back up image of it without opening the case and unplugging it from the motherboard ?

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**Author:** ![Davester](https://forum.freenas-community.org/user_avatar/forum.freenas-community.org/davester/32/131_2.png) [@Davester](https://forum.freenas-community.org/u/Davester)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2024, 6:08pm UTC](https://forum.freenas-community.org/t/freenas-server-not-booting/298/3 "2024-12-07T18:08:40Z")

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Although it booted, the network interface seems to go dead (lights are ok but no connectivity) through the web interface or access the filesystem share ☹

 ![screenshot-FreeNAS-2](https://discourse-freenas-community.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/1X/418031ee4b64b0ab9c1bc3568c5a00f5b5c8c50f.jpeg)

I couldn’t ping the interface, so i thought i’d have a look at its settings, I’m kind of stuck here, wishing i had access to the web GUI interface ☹