Questions about installation on SATA-Drives
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Hello @ all!
Yesterday, I tried to install pfsense on an SATA-Drive on the onboard SATA-Controller of an Asrock 775i65G Mainboard.
I changed the SATA mode in bios to the "compatibility mode" to emulate lagacy IDE controller on SATA.I installed pfsense without any problems but after the restart, pfsense will not boot. It hangs up on the selection menu (F1 for pfsense, F6 for PXE)
I tried the installation many many times and I tested with various of bios settings but it will not work. (also with another SATA disk)So, after this, I attached a real IDE-Harddisk and now, pfsense starts without any problem.
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There's no question in that. ;)
Good facts though.Have you looked at and tried any of this:
http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Boot_TroubleshootingWhat size was the SATA disk?
Steve
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I'ts a 250GB Harddisk.
Do you mean that it's the Boot Blocks/Loader Issues? -
I was thinking that the bootloader can't cope with a single large partition. Try using a much smaller partition as described.
Steve
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Try to change sata mode to enhanced and split partitions just like stephenw10 said.
There is a topic about disk performance that could help too.
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,43737.0.html
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OK Thank you!
I tried change to enhance mode, but also without success.
In an next step I will try with smaller partitions.