Problem installing CE 2.7.2 on HP Z620
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I'm trying to install pfSense CE 2.7.2 on an used HP Z620. After booting the installer from an usb stick I get, after a bit of time (some 20 sec in the select optin part) repeatedly errors: "pci(nn): unknown notify 0x2". (nn) is a semingly random one or two digit number.
I removed all NIC cards, but to no avail. The only cards in the system are a AMD graphics card and a M.2 NVMe card with two chips.
Is that a hint for a defect hardware (I bought the Z620 used) or for some other problem?Any help appreciated, Hans
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Pick a random OS, burn it to your SB drive and try install that other OS. If you see the same errors, you'll know what to do ^^
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Or try booting without the NVMe drive since that is a PCIe device and could be conflicting. You won't be able to install but it would prove an issue.
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Thanks for the help.
I tried it without the NVMe card, same result.
I tried to boot an usb stick with Debian Live 12.6. I didn't get the pci errors but the system was flakey. It seemed to hang sometimes and I wasn't able to wake it up after it gone to sleep.
I will try another hardware and to acquire another Z620 (to be able to compare the two systems).Regards, Hans
PS: Is there a tutorial for booting pfSense from a CCD but run then root on a NVMe RAIDz1?
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Hmm, boot from the install CD image but then mount root from SSD? That cannot be easily done. You would normally want to deliberately avoid that being possible.
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It seems that the problem is the used Z620. A new(er) one works, except the problem(s) below.
Maybe I formulated my wishes not very understandably. I installed pfSense on a separate M.2 NVMe PCIe card with two devices (used as mirrors), but the system will not boot (it asks for a disk drive).
My intensions are:
Insert the separate M.2 NVMe PCIe card into the mainboard and use it for pfSense.
That card isn't visible from the BIOS (it contains no Boot ROM), therefore the system will not boot (it asks for a disk drive).
Use a SSD (which is visible) as boot device and switch as early as possible in the boot process to the NVMe drives.
Is it possible to install pfSense in this use case?Regards, Hans
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I assume if you just install and boot from an SSD it does boot OK?
Does that system claim to support NVMe drives? I don't see it in the specs.
You should, technically, be able to boot a bootloader from SSD and then boot from NVMe if it can see that. That combination is not something I've tried though.
