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Boot stops at Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf

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    i4ko
    last edited by Nov 25, 2008, 2:14 AM

    Hi,

    I had m0n0wall successfully running on the same box on CF-IDE adapter. However I need dual WAN so I transfered the pfSense embedded image to the CF and at first it did not want to boot at all. Just a "/" was displayed on the screen. I have enabled the serial port after that and now booting goes to "Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf" then "animates" |-/ and leaves me on "/" with apparently hanged machine.

    Am I missing something or the machine is really frozen. (ctrl-alt-del is not working).

    I will appreciate any suggestions.
    Thanks.

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      cmb
      last edited by Nov 25, 2008, 3:42 AM

      That's where it switches to serial console.

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        i4ko
        last edited by Nov 25, 2008, 10:01 AM

        Thank you. That is one of the things I supposed, but really pfSense is running on the only machine having serial ports so I installed from CD. Apparently I made full Uniprocesor install

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          Cry Havok
          last edited by Nov 25, 2008, 12:21 PM

          Which is it - did you install embedded to a CF card, or do a full install from a CD?

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            cheesyboofs
            last edited by Nov 25, 2008, 1:07 PM

            Be sure to check out this thread also

            http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,11016.0.html

            Author of pfSense themes:

            DARK-ORANGE

            CODE-RED

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              i4ko
              last edited by Nov 25, 2008, 1:36 PM

              I observer what is posted in the first post with the embeded CF image.

              Afterthat I gave up and installed from CD. It is working now. I hade a differenet issue now, and I have opened a topic in the hardware section.

              Thank you all very much.

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