On 8/3/11 1:29 AM, Nick Upson wrote:
On 2 August 2011 17:09, Mehma Sarja <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 8/2/11 8:22 AM, Nick Upson wrote:
ok, I'm close to giving up with installing pfsense 1.2.3 or
2.0rc3 onto the FX5624 harddrive,
Does anyone have suggestions for similiar hardware (6 lan
ports, preferably rack mount) that is available in the UK
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Nick Upson (01799 533252)
We really need more info than provided. What is a FX5624? Is it a
drive or a system? Who makes it? Googling it, "Fanless Celeron M
CPU and 1GB DDR2 RAM. 2x RTL8111C Chipset Gigabit LAN and 4x
Realtek 8100C Chipset 10/100 LAN"
Now we know something. How are you booting it? Spinning drive,
SSD, CF card? I ran into a problem installing onto a SSD drive,
which turned out to be a minor issue. I don't understand when you
say it "hangs at the spinner after boot prompt." So, a better
description is warranted.
I'm installing onto a seagate 320GB 2.5" hard drive, from a CD, both
connected via sata. I boot from the CD and have attempted to install
directly (press I) and continue (press C) into the liveCD boot, do a
minimal configuration (1 lan & 1 wan) and install from there (option
99). I'm using the non-embedded version, both 1.2.3 and 2.0rc3.
I have 2 possible outcomes when I boot from disk, depending upon the
options used to install
- A menu is visible on the screen which after a few seconds attempts
to boot, this is what I finish up with on the screen
F1 pfSense
Boot: F1
\ <----- non-moving spinner
- the other outcome is that I get an error message like this:
default 0:ad(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel
no /boot/loader
boot:
Nick,
Dug up the old message where my install got stuck - below. That's not
your issue. Have you tried the usual things like booting from external
cd, switch disk drives, boot from a live Linux cd - anything to isolate
the problem?
Mehma
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On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:14 AM, Mehma Sarja<[email protected]> wrote:
The - Motherboard is "Super X7SPA-HF" I switched the TORQX SSD with a
regular drive - they both get stuck at the same point, see screenshot. "Root
mount" fails is a "panic" Here is a link to what I think is the cause:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=17331
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.
