pfSense hyper-v install crashes when attempting to format disk
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Hi all,
Running into an issue during install while following these guides on installing and running pfSense on Hyper-V
- https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/recipes/virtualize-hyper-v.html
- https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/install/install-walkthrough.html
When I get to the disk partitioning stage, I do not get a chance to select a disk, and choosing any configuration of the disk format and type will always crash the install. Anything I could be doing differently? Running Gen 2, since that is what the guide says. Set disk to 10GB, but when I look into it the number is 25GB...
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What disk do you have configured for the VM?
Check the boot logs from the installer, do you see the drive shown correctly?
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@stephenw10 thanks for replying! I've tried a fixed and a dynamic .vhdx virtual disk, as I read having too large a disk (above 20gb) could lead to problems like this.
I'm also very new to freebsd, so I haven't figured out how to browse to the install-log.txt file yet. Been trying to use what I know with Linux to browse there but it's not quite the same, haven't read how to do that yet.
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If the installer fails you should be to drop to the shell. Then at the command line just run
dmesg. That should show you the drive detected at boot.For example:
[admin@plusdev-2.stevew.lan]/root: dmesg | grep ada0 ada0 at ahcich0 bus 0 scbus2 target 0 lun 0 ada0: <QEMU HARDDISK 2.5+> ATA-7 SATA device ada0: Serial Number QM00005 ada0: 150.000MB/s transfers (SATA 1.x, UDMA5, PIO 8192bytes) ada0: Command Queueing enabled ada0: 10240MB (20971520 512 byte sectors) -
@DrSimplex Maybe don't use RDP for this. Maybe don't use hyper-v in the first place because you seem new to not only FreeBSD but everything. I installed it the other week, worked like expected.
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It should work. RDP or not!
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@stephenw10 yes, I'm seeing the drive show up here, so that's not an issue at least from what I can tell. It at least sees the drive
This is on the current version of pfsense off of the main website, I'd try an older version incase it is a bug but I don't see they officially host previous versions anywhere.
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What version of pfSense are you trying to install?
It just never shows a drive selection?
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@stephenw10 Yeah RDP would not be the reason for this. It's purely just an install format issue onto hyper-v. I knew that it'd be more of a tedious process... But I want a lab first before I deploy
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If you're installing 2.7.2 then try the legacy ISO installer.
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@stephenw10 Nice! Yes, this is my attempt with 2.7.2. I've been looking for something legacy to try and troubleshoot with, I'll give that a go. Thanks!
And no, it never offers for me to select a drive. Some forums I've seen say it is trying to install on my installation media, but I don't really get a chance to choose one or the other. :/
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@DrSimplex Perfect that legacy installer you linked to worked just fine Seeing through the rest of setup but its weird that the current version from netgate was just not working
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Yup that is odd. I'll try to get a test to replicate it though AFAIK it's already tested....
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@stephenw10 Sounds good, I'd imagine it would have been tested as well. I believe it could also have something to do with windows updates, I read another bug report that a KB update was causing issues with the install process for Hyper-V specifically... this was I think 2019 tho? Old news :/
So far so good with the install, will check tonight to see where we're at :)
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@stephenw10 said in pfSense hyper-v install crashes when attempting to format disk:
If you're installing 2.7.2 then try the legacy ISO installer.
So, honestly after a bit of troubleshooting I am getting logged into the web console for pfsense! The legacy ISO installer really just walked through formatting the drive, then the rest of setup for the network card I have was pretty straightforward over a terminal. Forgot I had my LAN port still set to a virtual one in the Hyper-V Switch Manager so that took me a second to remember
Again, not exactly sure why it wouldn't let me choose a disk to format with the original. I didn't change any of my Hyper-V settings, just swapped out the ISO. This is running 2.7.2, I know you mentioned that is the legacy ISO, am I good to just run with where I'm at?
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Yes, the resulting install is identical. You should be good to go.
We re-tested the Net Installer here and were able to install in Hyper-V OK so I'm not sure what happened there. Must be something slightly different with your setup.
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@stephenw10 there must be something different I guess, but again I didn't change anything between the regular GUI installer and the legacy installer. Hopefully this was just a me issue this time. Really appreciate your help!
Where does one access the legacy iso for future reference?
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At the mirror I linked above. That's the only location it's hosed at netgate currently.
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@DrSimplex said in pfSense hyper-v install crashes when attempting to format disk:
Set disk to 10GB, but when I look into it the number is 25GB
As I understand it ZFS on a dynamically expanding disk will eventually use all of the disk size due to how it works. Options would be a small/fixed disk, or UFS.
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@SteveITS I agree, I thought that may have been an issue so I restarted the VM setup ensuring the disk was fixed at, I think I set 15GB? Still ran into the same original issue where it wouldn't format initially.
