Hi, I'm currently trying to install pfSense 1.2.3 on an Axiomtek NA-820 [1,2]. Apart from the seven GBit interfaces its nothing fancy, Intel CPU, SATA controller, CF adapter. FreeBSD is an officially supported OS for that device.
I tried to boot both from the internal SATA disk and from the CF device I want to use (a Transcend UDMA 400x 16 GB if that matters, also tried a Lexar Professional UDMA 300x 4 GB). The images I tried were pfSense-1.2.3- RELEASE-4g-nanobsd and pfSense-2.0-BETA1-2g-20100527-0046-nanobsd. Both images do not boot at all. All I see is the Verifying DMI Pool Data stanza from the BIOS and that's it. No boot loader no nothing; serial is quiet (I even switched off the redirection of the BIOS POST to the serial device). After trying almost everything (LBA and CHS mode, writing the image both in my cardreader and from a Linux booted from an USB stick), I finally tried m0n0 1.34 and pfSense-1.2.2-Embedded. Both boot successfully from the CF card (didn't try the harddisk but I guess it should work, too). Oh, the pfSense-2.0 image on the 4 GB CF card almost booted on my WRAP (apart from the point where it breaks as described in the Wiki, but at least I saw some traces of the boot loader), so the image was flashed fine. Now I'm totally lost on how to debug this. It seems like the boot loader (has it changed since pfSense 1.2.2?) crashes immediately or something. Does anybody have an idea how to proceed from here? Is it possible to switch on some trace mode in the boot loader (I guess not)? What boot loader does pfSense/nanobsd use anyway? Cheers, Malte [1]http://axiomtek.com/products/ViewProduct.asp?view=429 [2]http://axiomtek.com/Download/Download/NA-820/NA-820.pdf -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
