Install on a Hard Drive stops at Welcome to pfSense when booting…
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I am using the serial console through telnet to watch it as it boots. I ordered the vga connector but that won't be here for days.
Is the serial memstick installer the same as using a usb flash drive installer connected to the 7541? I made a flash drive installer I could try.
Thanks for your input!
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The serial memstick is the same as the memstick, but it runs over the serial console not VGA.
The memstick and the ISO behave identically, so you can boot+install from the serial memstick over the serial console.
I've done that on my net6501, and I believe we've had people here do that on the 7541 as well, but I don't have immediate access to one of those.
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Well, I tried 2 different memstick serial versions. 2.0.3 and the latest snapshot 2.1 RC build.
Both started up and then just kept blinking _ and would not go any further.
I guess I need to wait until the vga cable arrives, and I'll try it again.
Weird…
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One last thought.
I was supposed to be booting with the memstick plugged into the USB port on the Netgate unit, correct?
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Yes, that's correct.
Where did the memstick images stop?
If you have another pfSense box handy, you might try this modification to the memstick:
http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Embedded_install_on_Netgate_Hamakua -
It looked like this:
F1 pfSense
F5 Drive 1F5 _
And the underscore would just blink occasionally.
F1 is the HD
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Jimp,
I tried the Embedded install on Netgate Hamakua mod on the memstick as well as th HD separately. Neither worked. The memstick still won't boot, and I rebuilt it with several different versions.
Do you have any idea why the hard drive boots when installed, but stops at the menu screen with 8 options and the terminal won't accept any input to make it continue?
The vga cable is due here wed. I'll make a vga memstick and hope that works unless you can thing of anything else to try.
Thanks for all your help!!
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That's usually where it switches from VGA to serial output when the serial console is enabled.
I didn't mean from that post that you should use NanoBSD, but rather that you should use the boot0cfg command on that page to set a special boot sector flag on the drive.
If all else fails, use a 7541 image from here: http://www.netgate.com/firmware/2.0.3p1-RELEASE-rebrand/
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I did the mod, not install the Nano.
I just tried the 386 version and still no hard drive pfSense lovin. >:(
Can those nanobsd builds be installed on a hard drive?
Thanks again.
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Interesting news. I made an image of the CF card that came installed from Netgate and I installed that on the HD.
Instant success!
They must have a special build going on there.
It still would be nice to do a regular install though. I'm going to see if I can get a build from Netgate.
