What does your Xen config look like?

I have a setup almost like this working at the moment. booted up from the livecd and installed on a flash drive (have ata 2 CF adapter installed). This works great.

It seems the nic on the WAN was faulty.  I replaced it as a last resort, and everything worked after that.  :-)

Yeah it's a FreeBSD issue. I suggest trying 1.2.3 as it's based on a newer FreeBSD release.

@dA_vO: Same problem here. :( And you can tell that you're using exactly the same hardware and version of pfSense as akus despite him not posting enough to be able to tell - I'm impressed! The symptoms may be similar, but the problem isn't likely to be the same.  If you're having problems you'll need to post more than "me too".  Details of the hardware you're using, version of pfSense you're using, what the problem is and where it happens.  I'd also suggest you search the forum and read the wiki.

Thanks for the quick response and the info. I installed version 1.2.3 before the office filled up with people. It is running now for 2 hours without any issue. The boot process was normal. I also suspected some hardware hassle. Typically I would assume timing or temperature being involved in such a case. I just do not have any explanation why this happens at the same point during the boot process and never during normal operation. When the office gets empty I will perform more boot tests to see whether the issue is solved with the new FreeBSD or not. Christian

@hopeless: yes but my problem is that I cant access the web gui….. The second part of my previous answer attempted to respond to your issue accessing the web GUI.

boot number 3 - Safe mode, you will have to be quick when pressing 3 in the menu. then edit /boot/loader.conf and add hw.ata.ata_dma="0" hw.ata.atapi_dma="0" this will take care of the DMA and your system will start fine with the default boot.

Thanx, I DL one of the images at this site, and installed it! Only problem I had was that I could'nt find what image to use. The one I DL seemd to be for PC, and I use a net48xx (former m0n0wall), and it wouldn't start by it self. Had to use Terminal after every reboot  ;D Well with your information in mind I DL the image for 128MB from pfsense, worked perfect. I did however have some problems with physdiskwrite and Vista (runed as admin). Moved over to a XP machine everything OK. So, thanx a lot!

1.2.1 is no longer the current, supported version.

what version? i have it under services -> upnp

I've got it working :) There was an error with grub so I did a new install without that and now it is working. Now it is time to play with some of the nice packages ;)

Thank you. I didnt even think about the crossover cable. I do have one in a box around here somewhere. These are pretty old cards "'99" Thank you again ;D

The question has been asked and answered before.  Try using the search function above ;)

yes i went through the bios with a fine-tooth comb. In the end the problem still remains unresolved, due to time constraints and not wishing to recompile kernels, i just swapped out the hardware for some DL150's, which it loaded onto fine.

thanks perry. i'll look into that!

Thanks.

Hello.. Sorry to pull up an old thread but I was wondering if this issue still exists IP380's?  Also is there any way to get the NON embedded version on the IP530's? Thanks, Matt

If you current 1.2.2 setup is broken, it wouldn't change must upgrading to 1.2.3 :) release announcement http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=351 Save the config file before a upgrade Diagnostics -> Backup/restore