Dell 850/860 won't upgrade or install 2.0 rc1
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running a dell 850/ 2.8gz pen dual core and pfsense 1.2.3.
loaded the i386 full upgrade, tried upgrade. it 'did its thing' then rebooted.
at reboot, got the 'unable to mount' ufs:/dev/ad4s1aboot from i386 2.0 rc1 and try recovery mode. rescue config.xml
points to ad4: drive.
gets error 1.boot from amd64 2.0 rc1, same thing.
boot from 'non pfsense' freebsd 6.4 disk, make sure drives arn't trashed. run fsck -y on all of them.boot amd64 rc1 and try a 'simple install' fails at ../bsdlabel /dev/ad4 .
boot amd64rc1 on a different dell, a dell 860.
try simple install. same problem. can't see to actually write to /dev/ad4.
NOTE: FREEBSD SCREWED UP THE ATA DRIVERS with freebsd 6.4+, and Ill bet the 8.0 kernel you have doesn't have the byte patch.
email me at scheidell@secnap.net, I'll give you the patch, but Id like a boot disk back :-) -
several machines, some running pfsense 1.2.3, some just running freebsd.
boot iso won't install, fails trying to write to ad4:TO FIX IT, I needed to boot a recovery cd and zero out the first 512 bytes of the drive. not good. means upgrades will always fail.
then, everything loaded fine from boot cd (but of course, I could not upgrade)