Installing pfSense 2.0 on a Dell PowerEdge R210
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I had the 38% hang on a Dell 1850. It installed when I went into the processor settings of the BIOS and disabled the Sequential Memory Optimization.
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I'm a little surprised that no one else tried to reboot and start the installation as a recovery install… I've tried this on two different systems that were both hanging at the 38% point and they seem to work flawlessly... ones been in production over 60 days with no restarts. The two that I've tried are R410 and PowerEdge 1950. Both of these have additional network cards installed and I used the same keyboard on them both. Let me know if anyone else finds that a recovery installation works for them.
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I tried different things to get pfSense 2.0 RELEASE onto the Dell R310 but pfSense seems to have a problem with the H200 Raid-Controller. As I had a spare vSphere 5 license I installed that on the R310 and pfSense into a virtual machine. On the PowerEdge R210 II I connected the Disks to the onboard SATA connectors as it's only the CARP failover system and a crash of the main system and the hard disk of the backup system at the same time is sufficiently unlikely. With the disks at the onboard controller installation of pfsense 2.0 was no problem.
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Just a quick note that the below worked for me - thanks for suggesting this! I also enabled VT in the bios prior to reading this far into the thread, so it's possible that even without VT on it would have worked with the recovery. Of course using recovery makes perfect sense this is exactly what it's for and why they do the -vvv on cpdup to get all the info.
Also this is a dell T310 system, but it seems like it's some common component based on the other reported identical troubles on the R210,310, etc.
I'm a little surprised that no one else tried to reboot and start the installation as a recovery install… I've tried this on two different systems that were both hanging at the 38% point and they seem to work flawlessly... ones been in production over 60 days with no restarts. The two that I've tried are R410 and PowerEdge 1950. Both of these have additional network cards installed and I used the same keyboard on them both. Let me know if anyone else finds that a recovery installation works for them.
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I've been trying for about 3 hours to install pfSense on a Dell Poweredge R210 with VmWare ESXi 5 as a host.
No matter what I try, the installer keeps hanging at 38 or 45%. I've tried pfSense 2.01 amd64, pfSense 2.01 i386 and even pfSense 123 without any luck.
In every case, the error log says:-<<< Executing `/usr/local/bin/cpdup -vvv -o /usr /mnt/usr'
[[i]Date and time]
->>> Exit status: 15Being frustrated, I just hit <<skip>> and it continued the installation. I'll keep you posted if everything is allright.</skip>
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Status report: Everything seems to be working fine, no problems so far.
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Isso mesmo muito obrigado por sua informação que me ajudou muito, eu utilizo um IBM ThinkCentre e estava utilizando um teclado generico, havia testado até a troca do HD original WesterDigital por um Samsung de 80GB e de nada adiantou, mas após ler este post troquei o teclado pelo original da IBM ThinkCentre e tudo foi resolvido…
Estou no Brasil e você do outro lado do mundo me ajudou, por isso eu digo: VIVA A LIBERDADE DO ACESSO A INFORMAÇÃO E ABAIXO AO S.O.P.A. ;D(translation)
That's right, thank you for your information that helped me, I use an IBM ThinkCentre and was using a generic keyboard, there were tested up to replace the original HD WesterDigital for a 80GB and Samsung to no avail, but after reading this post I changed the keyboard by the original IBM ThinkCentre and everything was resolved ...
I'm in Brazil and you across the world has helped me, so I say: LONG LIVE FREEDOM OF ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND BELOW THE S.O.P.A. ;D----------------------------------X
@Alexios:Hallo,
i had the same problem
PC HP DC7800 and my installation with Pfsense 2.0 RC1 stopped everytime at
38% in step /usr/local/bin/cpdup -vvv -l -o /usr/mnt/usr -too.I had installed earlier on the same PC Pfsense 1.23 and it worked.
First I checked the Bios settings, second different installation settings - no solution.But then i remembered that the only difference on my PC between Pfsense 2.0 RC1 and my Pfsense 1.23 installation was my Keyboard.
It sounds suspicious but with my Fujitsu-Siemens Keyboard PX PS2 my installation stopped everytime at 38% in step /usr/local/bin/cpdup -vvv -l -o /usr/mnt/usr .
With my Cherry Keyboard G83-6744 USB the installation with Pfsense 2.0 RC1 works fine now.
Someone made the same experience?
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Another owner of Dell PowerEDGE R210 here. Tried to install 2.0.1-RELEASE amd64 and experienced the famous 'hang at 38%' problem. Enabling VT and disabling C-states in BIOS didn't help. I didn't try other solutions suggested in this thread. Instead I updated the BIOS to 1.8.2 (I started out with 1.3.4). After BIOS update the installation went smoothly.
In order to be able to update the BIOS, I had to temporarily install Linux (I used SLES11 SP1, because that's what I happened to have at hand).
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thanks for the input vatson.
I've got a couple of 210's to do next month so I'll try your tip. -
In order to be able to update the BIOS, I had to temporarily install Linux (I used SLES11 SP1, because that's what I happened to have at hand).
Well, You didn't have to :)
Install Dell Repository Manager somewhere, take Dell Service DVD (now the latest version is 7.0.0), download SUU Linux repository for Your server, then expose it over NFS, and then run update of BIOS and all firmwares at once from this DVD..
I did it recently and strongly recommend this method, since we've failed with different firmware update method, which rendered Dell server unbootable..