AMD board will not boot…

[bushtor]

Hi,

For the first time I cannot get pfSense to boot from a harddrive after having installed it the 'normal' way.  It has always installed and booted without a hitch, however with this AMD Athlon board it just hangs after finishing the live-cd 99 installation.

This is what I've done:
Entered 99 from the live-cd menu
Tried to change keymap (have national keyboard) but there were no choices (why?) so I just accepted the default settings.
Selected Install pfSense
Selected ad1 as HDD (the only hdd drive, 20Gb)
Select disk geometry: Accepted suggested setting
Formatted drive
Partition disk: I selected <skip this="" step="">Install Bootblocks, <skip this="" step="">Select a Partition, accepted suggested partition data, 18.9 Gb, drive formatted again.
Select Subpartitions:
Mountpoint    Capacity
/                  *
[swap]        [1024M]
I accepted these defaults and the actual files copy started and copying procedure ended without errors.

I removed the CD during the reboot but the computer just hangs with no error msg when arrived to the boot point.

I have also tried with the boot manager suggested in the wiki, but to no avail.

Are there any 'manual' steps I can try?

Thanks for any suggestions

regards

Tor</skip></skip>

[sullrich]

Take a look at http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=BootTroubleShooting

and

http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=BootOptions

Try without ACPI, without DMA, etc.  All outlined in above links.

[bushtor]

Thanks Scott,

I tried with a third disk and it finally worked after I enabled  LBA.  Luckily ;-)

As of the installer's Keymap select option, is it intentional that there is no selectable countries but the 'default' there?

Any other possibilities to assign a national keyboard layout to pfsense..?

regards

Tor