HELP!!! Can't install pfSense
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Depending on what you selected the output may have switched to the serial console at that point. It may have continued to boot correctly. You certainly seem to be past the first stage bootloader.
Do you have a serial cable suitable for looking at the console?Steve
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Hey guys, getting further here but still having issues..
Changed to an old IDE hard drive and the install goes through, and boots up to where i then need to create vlan's and whatnot.. but then the keyboard didn't work.. so i rebooted and tried another one but now it won't boot, goes to that mountroot> and no further.
So i thought with the different keyboard i would do the install again from scratch, but when starting up to get into the install part, it says it can't find the cd image (same as i had when another disc didn't burn right). and ends at that mountroot> again.. so i dunno how the cd went from good to bad, but i will get another one from the shop tomorrow and try again.. still, more promising than it was a couple days ago.. must have not liked that SATA drive..
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Could you try it with another cd-rom/dvd player, just in ccase something is wrong with that one?
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Ok guys, so here is where i am at now.. Still not wanting to give up on pfSense, but more than a week just trying to get it installed is becoming annoying!
I changed to an old IDE hard drive, and got a new cd to reburn the iso slower..
I ran through the install, and it booted through from the hard disk all the way (first i got an LBA error so i disabled that in the bios) to where it asked if i wanted to create vlans.. but here, the keyboard no longer works.. although it did for me to press F1 to boot, and then to press enter at the first menu!!
So i restarted the computer to see if it works now, and i now get the following, please see the screenshot/photo attached.. Mentions that the file system is dirty and something, its a clean install!! I even zero's the hard drive before doing anything with it..
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Dirty file system just means the file system was not unmounted cleanly. In your case, I presume you weren't able to issue the shutdown command to unmount the file systems.
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Correct.. I couldnt do anything as the keyboard wouldnt work.. as you see on that screenshot, thats where i am stuck at.. how can i get this working? Why would the keyboard (PS2) work to boot into pfsense but then not work when i get to the point of creating the vlans?
I rebooted and now i am stuck with the following screenshot.. man, seriously is it possible to actually get this installed? Can't possibly be this dificult!
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Hmmm, maybe you could download again the pfsense.iso file and burn it low speed?
nuke the HD first before you install, it might be your download is a bit corrupt, just maybe… -
Sure i could.. i have however downloaded that iso twice and burned it 3 times at slowest speed my drive can burn it at(8x). have also tried 2 hard drives..
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Then it might be a issue with the hardware, i am sorry no other ideas how to test that, maybe with some benchmark software on the Hiren cd
Are you able to post screendumps of your bios settings? -
I would try resetting your bios to defaults, low level format your harddrive and reinstall.
Those screen shots you have posted seem to indicate some low level problem like the disk is failing or the install didn't complete.Steve
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You can also try a custom install, and make a small / (perhaps 4GB) and then make the rest swap and /usr
Some BIOS implementations are picky about the root (/) slice being over certain sizes.
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Hey guys, sorry i havent replied back here in a bit. was travelling a bit and then i got Dengue Fever.. awesome!! better now.
SO i trashed this onld machine as it was doing me no good, got my hands on another one with an ASUS motherboard and i am able to install. The only problem being i need 3 NIC's and this M/B only has the 1 onboard and only 1 extra PCI slot.. Am i able to do this all ok with a vlan? I have tried to do this but cant seem to work out how to setup the VLAN.. it asks if i want to and i say yes, i tell it which NIC to use, then it just seems to keep asking me the same over and over..
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Yes it need to know which physical hardware it uses with vlans. you should answer like em0 or whatever your drivers/hardware is. after that you may add vlan number
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Thanks, i just got myself a new box and 3 NIC's, and was able to install 2.0RC2 which is only seeing 2 of the 3 NIC's for now, its got 1 onboard and 2 PCI (identical) cards. They both work, in both slots on their own, but when both are plugged in, only 1 works.. this a problem with 2.0RC2?
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Thanks, i just got myself a new box and 3 NIC's, and was able to install 2.0RC2 which is only seeing 2 of the 3 NIC's for now, its got 1 onboard and 2 PCI (identical) cards. They both work, in both slots on their own, but when both are plugged in, only 1 works.. this a problem with 2.0RC2?
Have you assigned the third interface to pfSense? (in web GUI: Interfaces -> (assign), click on the "+" button in the bottom right of the screen). If there are no interfaces to assign please post the output of the pfSense shell command # dmesg so we have a bit more information to work with.
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Hey thanks for the reply. I couldnt figure it out, then 2 days ago a new version of software was available, so i updated automatically from the GUI, still version 2.0-RC2 but was 2 days newer than the one i had installed, after it installed and i rebooted, all my NIC's are showing up and working together!! So problem solved here :) Thanks for all the help that everyone gave, its this support that kept me interested in using pfSense
