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      la_tengo_como_burro
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      Ok I spoke too soon I had the serial port disabled on the BIOS sorry about that. I got the Null Modem - Com1 thing to work… However it starts booting and freezes at the following point in the booting process....

      pcib2: <pci-pci bridge="">at device 31.0 on pci0
      pci2: <pci bus="">on pcib2

      Any ideas of what might be going on?</pci></pci-pci>

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        rsw686
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        No error messages or kernel panics? What card do you have in that PCI slot? Trying pulling the card and see if it boots.

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          la_tengo_como_burro
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          I have a 2GB TRANSCEND CF card 133x. I am not sure what you mean by pulling the card, if I boot without the card it is not going to go anywhere. Now I can boot perfectly fine with a bootable CD if that is what you want to know.

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            rsw686
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            I meant what PCI card do you have in PCI slot 2? I figure you have an additional NIC card since that board only has one on-board NIC. Normally after it shows pci2: … it will show the card on that slot. Maybe it is having a problem with whatever card it is.

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              la_tengo_como_burro
              last edited by

              I had the good ol' 3COM  905b… I just pulled it out and booted.

              Same thing...

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                rsw686
                last edited by

                I have no idea then. You might try playing with the BIOS settings.

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                  la_tengo_como_burro
                  last edited by

                  :'(   I don't want to give up, but I am going to have to for now.  I have allready played with the BIOS settings, i've virtually disabled anything unessesary, like the SATA controllers, parallel port, etc. and Nothing.

                  PFsense creators if you are reading this… This is a great board for PFsense, it is the cheapest new Mini-ITX board outthere and it is fanless. It is also a very popular board due to its price, I think it will be of interest for you guys if you can get PFsense to work with it, I am willing to help you out in testing.   :'(

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                    rsw686
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                    This is more of a FreeBSD issue than a pfSense issue. Try loading FreeBSD and see if it boots. There are high chances it will hang at the same point.

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                      la_tengo_como_burro
                      last edited by

                      I loaded FreeNAS which is the same thing as M0n0wall and it intalls just fine.

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                        rsw686
                        last edited by

                        @la_tengo_como_burro:

                        I loaded FreeNAS which is the same thing as M0n0wall and it intalls just fine.

                        They use version 4 something of FreeBSD vs version 6.

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                          la_tengo_como_burro
                          last edited by

                          :-\   I see

                          Anyway thank you all for your help, even though it was a complete failure I really apreciate you guys taking the time to help me.

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                            KiFFuSeR
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                            @rsw686:

                            They use version 4 something of FreeBSD vs version 6.

                            I have one of these boards too and it's working with FreeNAS (wich is FreeBSD 6.2 based).

                            I'm starting to believe it's a pfSense issue.

                            The embedded image should work, but i've read somewhere that the serial port on the D201GLY2 has some issues (can't remember if it was in linux or BSD) so this wouldn't allow to make the initial config in the embedded version.

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                              la_tengo_como_burro
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                              If FreeNAS runs on FreeBSD 6.2 then is definitely a PFSense issue, I personally intalled the latest FreeNAS version on it and it rus just fine. Also some people report that it works with diffrent versions of PFsense. I am going to keep on trying when I get home today. I am going to make my best to get this working since I belive this is one of the best boards that can currently be purchased on the market today… its the cheapest option, its small, saves electricity, fanless... Those Alix boards are nice and they save a lot of power but they are pretty expensive.

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                                ajs
                                last edited by

                                I am having the same issues. Intel D201GLY2, running the 1.2 final release, embedded version. physdisk"wrote" to a 512MB Emphase 40pin disk module. It hangs at this point, like mentioned above:

                                pcib2: <pci-pci bridge=""> at device 31.0 on pci0
                                pci2: <pci bus=""> on pcib2</pci></pci-pci>
                                

                                I get the same results when booting from the LiveCD full installer as well. I was hoping using the embedded version was going to fix it, but alas, here we are.

                                so, pretty much the same as already discussed. I have tried several combinations of disabling everything not essential, and have pulled the nic I had in the pci slot. So it would seem to be something strange with how the board is designed with that pci bus?

                                The only thing I have not tried yet is disabling the video output, or the serial output. Since I would need the serial output, it would be kind of silly if that fixed it. Also, I have not searched for a BIOS update from Intel. That is next on my list.

                                I have tried to change the PCI latency in the BIOS from 32 to 248, no difference (I hate to admit it, but I have no idea what that does!)

                                I am willing to try any suggestions. If I can't get this to work, I guess I will just turn this into my FreeNAS server. Pity, because as mentioned above, this is a great, cheap platform for pfSense. Too bad it uses the SiS chipset everyone loves…

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                                  xDream
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                                  I’ve managed to boot the pfsense 1.2 on D201GLY2 but only with onboard LAN disabled and no CompactFlash card connected.

                                  First I tried to boot from pfsense installation CD with only CD-ROM drive and D-Link DGE-530 NIC connected to the board and pfsense crashed when initializing the onboard LAN (saying that it could not map interrupt and it will reboot in 15 sec).

                                  Then I disable onboard LAN in BIOS and it successfully booted.

                                  After that I connected CompactFlash card and it stopped booting again (it unable to mount flash card attached to IDE)

                                  So I think there is a problem with SIS 900 onboard LAN driver.
                                  m0n0wall 1.3b (based on FreeBSD 6.3) works fine on this board.
                                  P.S. English is not my native language :)

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                                    wishy
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                                    I've just built an intel D201GLY2 for a pfSense and combined server box.

                                    I think I'd agree its too heavy a board for to run just PFSense, it does kick out a decent amount of head, although its only about 30W still. It depends if your intending to use the power.

                                    In my case I went for the more beefy server and 2gb of ram so that I could have PFSense sitting under VMWare, and a Windows, Linux and Solaris servers each sat in their own little virtualised worlds. (Bare in mind I want a testing / fiddle enviroment for me to experiement rather than mess up production systems at work). The performance is about right to do this, where as the C7 processor would be more or less at its knees.

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                                      KiFFuSeR
                                      last edited by

                                      Just one question regarding the problems with this board, I remember when I first bought this board that I've had some issues using a gigabit ethernet adapter and a Sata controller through a dual-slot PCI riser. Those issues only dissapeared after a BIOS update available in Intel website.

                                      Are you running the latest BIOS version?

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                                        Master One
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                                        I can confirm having the same issue, it just hangs after:```
                                        pcib2: <pci-pci bridge=""> at device 31.0 on pci0
                                        pci2: <pci bus=""> on pcib2</pci></pci-pci>

                                        I tried both, the embedded image and the livecd. I have the D201GLY2A with latest bios (v137), and I tried it with two different setups (single-slot & dual-slot PCI riser card, with one & two Intel Pro/1000 MT Dual Port Server Adapters). Strangely I only come to that point by booting with ACPI disabled, with the default boot it already ends at:```
                                        ehci0: Could not allocate irq
                                        device_atttach: ehci0 attach returned 6
                                        sis0: <sis 10="" 900="" 100basetx=""> port 0x2000-0x20ff mem 0x2a1c0000-0x2a1c0fff irq 19 at device 4.0 on pci0
                                        sis0: couldn't map interrupt
                                        
                                        Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
                                        fault virtual address   = 0x60
                                        fault code              = supervisor read, page not present
                                        instruction pointer     = 0x20:0xc0846a49
                                        stack pointer           = 0x28:0xc0c20b1c
                                        frame pointer           = 0x28:0xc0c20b30
                                        code segment            = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
                                                                = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
                                        processor eflags        = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
                                        current process         = 0 (swapper)
                                        trap number             = 12
                                        panic: page fault
                                        Uptime: 1s
                                        Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort</sis>
                                        

                                        There is nothing in the bios to change concerning interrupts, and all unneeded features already have been disabled. If it is indeed working with FreeNAS and m0n0wall, than this only leaves the conclusion, that there is something wrong with pfsense 1.2 or the FreeBSD version it is based on.

                                        BTW Booting an old Gentoo Linux minimal-installation-CD (I think it was 2006.0 or 2006.1) worked nearly flawlessly. It only complained about something concerning interrupts when I tried it on the setup with the dual-slot PCI riser-card and two Intel Pro/1000 MT Dual Port Server Adapters, on which it suggested to boot with the kernel option "irqpoll", which resolved the issue.

                                        That really is a pitty, and comes completely unexpected. Means, if there is no solution for that problem, I now have to use either m0n0wall or a Linux firewall distribution on that machine. :(

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                                          Master One
                                          last edited by

                                          Well, problem identified. It has to do with the changed UP kernel configuration starting with 1.2-RC3, which means, it is impossible to install an image or from a livecd after 1.2-RC2.

                                          I booted 1.2-RC2 just fine, and as far as I understand, I just need to swap to MP kernel and then do the upgrade to 1.2-FINAL, which I will try to do now.

                                          P.S. YES, that's the way to go!

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                                            dcabot
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                                            Ok, I've got the same problem.  So where do we download 1.2RC2?  I can't find it anywhere.

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