Issues on re-install of system
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Hi, i am having an issue getting pfsense to install. I had it successfully running on a dell optiplex 9020 in an active/standby cluster. Both systems have dual 256gb SSD's in them running zfs. Due to bad luck on my side, I had both SSD's fail around the same time on the primary system. The secondary system is working without issue right now.
I replaced the SSD's in the machine and am trying to reinstall pfsense again. When i run the install, i get to the part to select the storage configuration. If i pick zfs or udi, i get an error saying no disk. I can go to recovery mode from the installer and if i run gpart i see device ada0 and ada1. I was able to zero write to both SSD's without issue (used this command: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/adaX bs=1M). i don't know why the pfsense installer can't see the drives but the OS can without issues. using a usb drive that was created from this file: netgate-installer-amd64.img.gz
FWIW, on the other 2 optiplex systems that are still running, both zfs pool names are zpool so i am guessing all 3 were setup around 2.4 or so.
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@ws6 What version of pfSense are you trying to install, 2.7.2 CE or pfSense Plus?
Maybe you want to give a go with the legacy installer? Just to make sure it's not an new-installer limitation/bug.
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Thanks for that link. Using the legacy installer it worked fine. Not sure why the netgate wouldn't. It is using the onboard intel chipset for storage. I did even try to enable the CE repo on the netgate installer with no luck.
With the legacy installer, i was able to install it, update it to match the HA peer, and then sync all the settings over HA to the unit. FW is back up and active again.
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Forgot to answer your first question. I am running Plus but i just needed anything to install. Tried to get either to install the netgate installer. I assume this is a new installer bug. Got 2.7 installed using the legacy installer and it was able to update to 24.03 without issue.
I would suggest that someone put a link to the legacy installers on the pfsense download page. I couldn't find a link to them when i was looking.
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@ws6 maybe @stephenw10 has a better idea if there are still limitations of the new Netgate installer.
Regarding the link to the legacy installer, I guess Netgate would rather people use the new one.
For me the new installer is not a good fit, with the legacy one the installation takes a few minutes max, with the new one it takes forever with a crappy internet connection, over and over again :/
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The installer is built on a newer FreeBSD version. So it implies that something in your hardware is not supported/recognised there. Probably the drive controller somehow.
Check the boot logs from the legacy and net installers for errors or omissions.
If there's a regression there it would be good to know about it now because that system probably won't boot in 24.03, 24.11 or 2.8.
Steve
