On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Mehma Sarja <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/10/11 11:33 AM, Chris Buechler wrote: >> Based on your screenshot, that has no relevance. The screenshot shows >> you're booting from CD, likely a USB CD drive, which is slow >> initializing and you need to pick the "boot from USB" option at the >> first boot menu. > > To be clear: When I boot off a live pf123 cd, the install happens smoothly. > When I stick a pf RC1 cd in, the install gets stuck at the screenshot. To > me, that has relevance and I believe the system is mis-naming the hard drive > and not seeing it. BIOS sees it. > > BEFORE > Before finding the possible cause, I've tried multiple permutations of disk > drives, 32 and 64 bit versions of pf RC1 and two upgrade paths - > unsuccessfully. There is something either in the new pf install process or > this particular hardware that is not right. Since I am not hearing much > noise on the message boards, I believe it to be a hardware issue. > Specifically, the issue may be that system is referring to a hard drive > incorrectly. Hence the FreeBSD message board link in the previous message. > > SOMETHING CHANGED > Oddly, last night a fresh 32 bit pf 123 install followed by an upgrade went > smoothly. I just want to know what went wrong.
FWIW, I run RC1-RC4 on a Supermicro X7SPA-H. It suffers from the USB mount problem, but running from a SATA HDD or SDD works fine. USB boot can be fixed by adding a delay to the config file. See http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/495 Regards, -Jeppe --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
