New Install 2.2.2
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Need help. Just assembled a new system using 2.2.2 on the Supermicro A1SRi 2758F. After assigning igb0 to the WAN port and igb2 to the LAN port the system completes Boot and starts displaying 4 identical lines reading "FreeBSD/amd64 (PfSense.localdomain) (ttyv0)" in a continuous loop. I have installed PFsense on many systems but never had an issue before. Something tells me it is related to the NIC drivers. I have this system setup with a GEOM mirror on two SATA drives.
Any ideas?
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I would like to add that I have been working on this all day and have tried all the easy stuff already. I re-installed twice and I have changed out the hdd's and I tried changing NIC assignments, I used different USB drives for installs, i even changed monitor and keyboard…...pulling my hair out.
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"Certain intel igb cards, especially multi-port cards, can very easily exhaust mbufs and cause kernel panics, especially on amd64. The following tweak will prevent this from being an issue:
In /boot/loader.conf.local - Add the following (or create the file if it does not exist):
kern.ipc.nmbclusters="1000000""Could this be the answer to all my troubles? How can I edit the /boot/loader.conf.local file if I can not get to the console menu?
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Someone on NewEgg says that worked for them: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182855
(Look at the reviews)
Try booting single user from the boot menu and editing the loader.conf.local or just break the boot, set the nmbclusters, and boot. -
Add it via system -> tunables.
MOre or less a straight copy!
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Thanks DotDash. I had it fixed before I read your post so I am not sure if that was a good fix or not.
SuperMule, Thanks for the help. The problem I was having would not allow me to get to the console or allow a connection through the web configurator. There for no way to make a tunables entry.
What I ended up doing was using vi to make the entry into the /boot/loader.conf.local file after pulling one of the drives and mounting it in a FreeNAS box, then resyncing the GEOM Mirror.
Long of it is that it works perfectly now and this board is a beast. I built 2 of these systems. We have 2 fiber circuits (100Mbs/100Mbs) each. My plan is to Load Balance the two WANs and use High Availability sync to keep them running for a thousand years.
Thanks again.
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This is what the box was doing after install…...
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This is the completed system…...
