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    Hanging on Boot

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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      vashidu
      last edited by

      @doktornotor:

      Somehow you failed to describe the issue.

      It just hangs, when booting, doesnt do anything, can sit there for a couple hours, still doesnt matter.

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      • GertjanG
        Gertjan
        last edited by

        Great.
        We got a writer who doesn't read  :(

        A wild shot: take another device to run PfSEnse on.

        No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
        Edit : and where are the logs ??

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          vashidu
          last edited by

          @Gertjan:

          Great.
          We got a writer who doesn't read  :(

          A wild shot: take another device to run PfSEnse on.

          Sir,

          it clearly states in the first post for the version…
          @vashidu:

          I used the 64bit 2.2.3 memstick image for the installer, also here is a picture of the system information in the bios

          And its booting from a 250GB sata hdd

          also, i have pfsense running on 3 watchguards, i wanted to move away from embedded and now im questioning that.

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          • GertjanG
            Gertjan
            last edited by

            OK, very true, I didn't saw the text line between the 2 BIOS screen images.

            I 'see' possibilities: FreeBSD kernel goes wacko on the hardware
            Or : boot device (device or what on it) isn't good.

            Can you try from starting from other boot material ?

            No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
            Edit : and where are the logs ??

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              doktornotor Banned
              last edited by

              Looking at the shitty ASUS BIOS screen. This required some special bootloader mode install, last time I tried to recycle similar garbage for pfSense. IIRC, needed to uncheck the "packet mode"…

              https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Boot_Troubleshooting#BIOS.2FDisk_Errors

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                vashidu
                last edited by

                @Gertjan:

                OK, very true, I didn't saw the text line between the 2 BIOS screen images.

                I 'see' possibilities: FreeBSD kernel goes wacko on the hardware
                Or : boot device (device or what on it) isn't good.

                Can you try from starting from other boot material ?

                I booted from the memstick to install, and ive also had freebsd on this box before. I'm going to try one of my bigger sata drives i really didnt want to use on this project, but if i must.

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                • GertjanG
                  Gertjan
                  last edited by

                  By boot material I meant : change memstick t CD image (if you can get a CD reader hooked up).

                  The moment the booting blows up is when the kernel (FreeBSD) is loading i memory. I guess your hard drive isn't even touched at that moment. I guess your boot device (the stick) is the problem - or the USB support ….

                  No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                  Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                    re0
                    last edited by

                    I seem to have the same issue with 2.2.3 vga amd x64 trying to install from usb. Hangs at boot like shown by OP. Hardware was running 2.1.x installed from the same usb-stick, installed last year. online-upgrades worked for me, until the upgrade to 2.2.3, introducing a captive portal port issue. After this tried to fresh install 2.2.3: hangs at boot. Tried the kernel option to circumvent the ACPI issue, at no avail. Fortunately I made a disk image, so could image it back to the last working image.

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                      jonross09
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                      • GertjanG
                        Gertjan
                        last edited by Gertjan

                        Three years ago - you just resurrected a three ( 3 !) years old thread, FreeBSD 11.2 didn't exist.

                        This thread isn't about FreeBSD 11.2 and taks about an ancient pfSense version 2.2.3.

                        Admin's: please lock this thread.

                        No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                        Edit : and where are the logs ??

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