Install/Upgrade 2.0 RC1 from CD/Web not working

Nicklas

try to disable your acpi in bios

Aziz

Thanks, you're right about the ACPI.

A while ago I was trying to shut down the machine while it was hanging and noticed that as soon as I pressed the power button, instead of shutting down, the bootup process worked as normal. But, the ACPi is still enabled, it actually inerferes with all network functions and I can get no network connectivity.

Everything works fine if I select option 2 (Boot with ACPI disabled) during bootup.

I'm currently trying to modify /boot/device.hints by adding hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" but this isn't working..

Nicklas

Try this and let me know if it helps you.

http://www.techtalkz.com/freebsd/114125-how-disable-acpi-bootup.html

It says you need to do this see bottom almost

Put hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" in loader.conf.

should work then ;-)

Aziz

Thanks, I tried that but it didn't work. Other sources say to modify device.hints, but I messed up my device.hints file! I downloaded it to my Windows PC and edited it in Wordpad then overwrote the original. I think it messed up the encoding/special characters. Anyone mind emailing/PMing their one to me? ;D

Nicklas

if you did save the backup do a new reinstall, restore the config file after….

Unless you have it remote in a DC :-((

Aziz

I can't do a reinstall, when I try to do a fresh installation, it throws me onto the mountroot prompt and says there's some problems with mounting the USB CD drive. Not sure what to do from there…

Only way I managed to do it before was to install 1.2.3 then upgrade to 2.0. If I could just fix the device.hints file I wouldn't need to start over (and loader.conf too, it seems I messed that I messed up loader.conf too :-[ ). Anyone?

Nicklas

please try as follow, on the shell of the pfsense server type: # dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda
This will wipe your harddisk, then you should be able to do a clean install with noacpi parameter.

otherwise DBAN the disk, try to do fresh install again with latest version.

I assume you still have this acpi disabled, i can't recall if there is a option when you boot to start install,
with most flavourse you can give options, like noacpi

I have collected following over time when i faced problems:
Options to use to install linux on laptops/desktops with power options or some other issues, [pnp settings in bios? [on/off]

acpi=off
noapic
noiapic
nomca
nomce
nosmp

O, one more thing, burn that cd/dvd on 1x speed that might solve your issue as well !!!

AhnHEL

Have you tried selecting Option 3 to boot from USB device while booting from the Install CD? The boot process defaults to Option 1, select 3.

I have acpi enabled on my NC9C, no issues.

Aziz

I managed to fix it by using the "Edit file" command in the Web GUI to edit the devices.hints file and the load.conf.local files to disable ACPI. Thank you everyone for your help. (P.S. I burnt the disc at x1; didn't work, nor did selecting to Boot with USB device).

Nicklas

Hi Aziz, great to haer you got it all working now… so we can conclude it was down to the ACPI?

regards
N.