Problems installing pfSense 2.0 BETA1 (Jan 8 Snapshot)

[hest]

Ive got a tiny machine (via cpu etc) without cdrom for my router purposes.
I thought id try pfsense 2.0, installing by a usb cdrom (i am already running 1.2.3 on the machine)

I boot from the CD and everything looks good, i get the Welcome to FreeBSD menu where i choose 1 (default) freebsd installation. (safe mode fails same way as well)
When the installer tries to start, it stops at mount error:

Root mount waiting for: usbus0
umass0:0:0 Attached to scbus0
Trying to mount root from cd9660:/dev/iso9660/pfSense
ROOT MOUNT ERROR:
If you have invalid mount options, reboot, and first try the following from the loader prompt:

set vfs.root.mountfrom.options=rw

And then remove invalid mount options from /etc/fstab

Loader variables:
vfs.root.mountfrom=cd9660:/dev/iso9660/pfSense
vfs.root.mountfrom.options=ro

Then i get mountroot, i try to cd9660:/dev/usbus0, but i still get error.

How could i resolve this? Is it a major bug?

[Slam]

I have come across this problem too, if I recall correctly it booted for me with the following:

cd9660:/dev/iso9660/pfSense

enter the above right after you see

mountroot>

and hit enter.

Slam

[hest]

I have tried this without success  :-[

Also tried to run the install without acpi, but still gets thrown the same error.

Is this a FreeBSD8.0 bug perhaps?

[hest]

I did some googling:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-October/012361.html

Could this have something to do with this?

is pfSense based on 8.0-RELEASE, or a custom CURRENT tree?

[hest]

Really looks like a FreeBSD8.0 bug:

http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-usb@freebsd.org/msg05644.html
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=9630

Havent found a solution though, i only need a quickfix to get the installed going so i cant get 2.0 on my HDD :)

Tips are greatly appreciated!

[Slam]

You can try this as I dont really remember how I got it working exactly, unplug the usb cable when you get the error, plug the cable back in then enter "cd9660:/dev/iso9660/pfSense" (w/out quotations) on the console.

If that fails then you could try installing pfsense 1.2.3 release and upgrade to pfsense 2.0 from the webgui.

Slam

[cmb]

Right now we're building off RELENG_8_0, probably switching to RELENG_8 (later 8_1) at some point.

[mjf]

Anyone been able to find a workaround for this? Nothing I've tried so far has worked. I've used 3 different USB DVD drives with the same result. Also the vanilla FreeBSD 8.0 iso boots up with no issue.

[cmb]

It's apparently hardware-specific, and even USB port specific, but not CD/DVD drive specific. I have one USB DVD drive I use that won't work on some hardware, works fine on one box I test with a lot but only in one of its USB ports and only if the USB keyboard is plugged into a different bank of USB ports.

We did implement a patch by Andrew Thompson that should fix some of these scenarios, if you're on the newest snapshot it should be there.

[mjf]

Tested yesterday with the 2/7 snapshot with the same results unfortunately. I only have 2 USB ports on my pfsense system; both on the same controller so neither works. Looks like for now the only work around may be to open up the case to connect an IDE or SATA drive.