Post Installation Boot Issue
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I am trying to install pFsense 1.2.3 on a older 1U server as a backup to our primary system which may be suffering a sporadic hardware issue. The live cd boots fine and allows me to complete a quick/easy install however upon reboot I am stuck with:
Boot: F1
\I have read others posts along these lines and have tried most if not everything I have come across. The motherboard in the system is a Tyan Tomcat (i815T) - I have disabled ACPI in the bios and attempted a re-install with no success. I see some posts suggesting booting the livecd with ACPI disabled the only ACPI option I see when I boot is to boot with ACPI enabled. This leads me to believe the default option has ACPI disabled.
Can anyone offer me suggestions / advice? I hope to get a backup pfsense box up and running so that I may further troubleshoot the problematic production system.
Thanks.
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Are you installing the Embedded version?
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No, I am installing to hard disk. The software runs fine from the liveCD and does install without error - its upon the reboot after install to hard disk that it seems to not find the drive.
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Are you attempting to boot it in the same machine that you used to install from CD, or did you change any hardware after running the install?
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This is a new install…I have tried tweaking some bios settings and am taking another stab at it (disabled acpi / and lba)
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You can still install the Embedded version to the hard disk…
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This is not the embedded version.
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So I think I got it working - either one of the following changes (or both) got things up and running on my system.
- Disabled LBA for the hard drive.
- Unselected packet blocks during setup.
Thanks.