ACPI Error - How to edit the file!

Mr. Waste

/boot/device.hints

with the line at the bottom:

hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"

it's a iso file inside of the gz file

stephenw10

You cannot do that to the ISO file, without re-building the ISO file at least.

However you can escape to the loader prompt and pass loader lines to the kernel:

set hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"
boot

However on any even vaguely recent hardware booting with ACPI disabled usually breaks multiple things.

Steve

Mr. Waste

I am going to send you a YouTube video on what is happening while trying to boot into the loader because there is no loader at all. Also in the bios settings there is no option to disable or enable ACPI.

Mr. Waste

Video on what is happens, I don't know what to do.

Mr. Waste

https://youtu.be/Fxo5QzRc-JM

stephenw10

I can't view that, it says it was removed.

Mr. Waste

@stephenw10 try now, youtube has been processing it..

stephenw10

Urgh. That BIOS has many many errors! Make sure it's running the most recent BIOS there may be updates with fixes.

What is that you are booting exactly?

Steve

Mr. Waste

@stephenw10 I am trying to boot / load pfsense from scratch inside of the usb stick and the version 2.4.5 - (Latest Version) -Downloaded 1 day ago.

This is normal? I don't know what is going on with it.. I'm just trying to have pfsense on.

Mr. Waste

Also I know if I have the iso file that has the line : hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" everything will be ok. Is there a way to modify the iso itself because I have tried and I can't seem to make it work...

Gertjan

Well : https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/hardware/boot-troubleshooting.html

But I advise you to download another image first : stock FreeBSD 11.0 ( see freebsd.org ). That should load and install. If not, ditch the system. If it does, pfSense might actually work.

stephenw10

It looks like you're not seeing the loader menu, where you can reach the loader prompt, because you're booting UEFI.
Can you boot legacy on that box?

Also are you actually using the ISO file on a USB stick?
If so then don't do that, use the memstick VGA image:
https://nyifiles.pfsense.org/mirror/downloads/pfSense-CE-memstick-2.4.5-RELEASE-amd64.img.gz

How do you know it will be OK if you disable ACPI? Most modern hardware will not boot at all with ACPI disabled.
What hardware are you trying to install to?

Steve

Mr. Waste

@stephenw10 Kangaroo computer with 2gb of ram and storage of 28gb. Intel cpu. Yes I can boot into the bios settings. The bios are really limited on what you can do.. - (Boot Legacy).

I'm trying to install pfsense on this mini computer. - (like normal)

I am trying the image you gave, I'll respond back soon. (5-10 Mins ish)

Lastly, I don't know if it will be ok because there is an error with ACPI for some reason.

edit: - (1 min later)
I'm guess this isn't normal because I downloaded the image with xcp-ng; xen server and everything is working that was 3 days ago before ever trying to make this tiny computer to work..

stephenw10

You can't edit an ISO image but you can edit the memstick image once it's written to the drive if you need to. It's UFS so you need something that can read/write that, like FreeBSD.

So it's one of these?: https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/infocus-kangaroo-mobile-desktop

Steve