i]chose the embedded kernel option, but it is possible that my selection 'didn't take' (i.e. I selected it, but the installer ignored my selection). For me, those configuration screens suffered from ugly font problems and did not instill confidence.
It's not you. The 2.2.4 ADI image is obviously broken. I finally figured out on my Mac the terminal emulation for the Fkeys is broken (no matter what I pick) so I wasn't getting the BIOS boot manager - it would slip to GRUB which was annoying. Talk about picking a dumb key for a bios boot menu - hey, the PXE boot config uses control-B - how about something more universal like, I dunno, ~~for a boot menu?!? But I digress - I was able to get into the boot menu in PuTTY on Windows (annoying, but at least I got over that hump!)
Like you, I clearly picked the NO VGA option, yet on the post install reboot it's clearly ignoring the serial port and loading the VGA driver.
Which is beyond annoying. I'll web in on the default 192.168.1.1 - but it's rediculous and I shouldn't have to.
Has anyone from the pfSense build team actually wrote the current ADI image to a flash drive, installed it on a 2220 and seen for themselves that IT DOESN'T WORK?
Also on the installer, it would be LOVELY if in addition to the faux GUI selection there were honest to goodness menu choices so that on a critical screen like the VGA or No VGA I could press 1 for VGA install or 2 for No VGA/Keyboard (Serial) install and KNOW that was the selection I really made to remove doubt like this.
I can't believe I've blown half my night on something that shouldn't be anywhere near this ambiguous. ~~