Going from pfsense plus 23.9 to 2.7.2 CE
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I have a mini PC with 2 realtek ports on which I installed pfsense plus from the start (when it was free) and it installed smoothly. No problems.
Just today I formatted the drive and installed pfsense CE 2.7.2 but it gets stuck at:
"/rc.linkup ignoring event during boot sequence. I formatted aging and tried a total of 3 installations with no success. I then downloaded 2.6 and tried installing again and I get stuck at a different error. stick after detecting the 2 realtek cards and shows them momentarily as UP then DOWN.Does anyone know if the pfsense+ installer has additional drivers or configuration or something different which would allow an installation to be successful on non netgate hardware?
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@alfaro Until a couple of months ago there wasn't a direct installer for Plus.
The linkup message is normal. Possibly, it's switching to a serial console or something like that?
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/troubleshooting/boot-issues.html -
That sounds like you're looking at the wrong console.
Which image exactly did you download?
Which console are you using?
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@SteveITS Thank you for taking the time to respond.
I checked documentation before asking here but nothing I found was helpful. -
@stephenw10 Thank you for taking the time to reply. I downloaded for VGA, not serial as the mini pc I am using does have both but I rather use the VGA port which helps me look with little effort any error messages on the screen
To be more clear
pfsesnse-ce-memstick-2.6.0-RELEASE-amd64.img and also pfsense-CD-memstick-2.7.2.-RELEASE-amd.img -
@alfaro
UPDATE - Not sure how but FIXED
I finally got to install this way (after 3 tries on 2.7.2 and 3 tries on 2.6):
Installed version 2.6 (CE) and once it "completed" I hit enter while the screen was indicating the system was trying to get the WAN link UP (or detect it).
It asked me if I wanted to configure the VLAN now and I said Y for yes. I chose no VLANs and then I was asked if I wanted to configure the interfaces manually. I used the keyboard again to configure the WAN and the LAN and then the DHCP range from which to sassing IP addresses and it finally gave my computer an IP and I was able to log on to the interface and load the backup configuration file.Once that was done I rebooted and immediately the text on the screen indicated the config file had been created on a newer version of pfsense and it was imperative to update or the system would have problems. I used the option (13 I think) to update the system. It updated to 2.7 and once rebooted I updated to 2.7.2 with the text menu again and after that everything was working, or so I thought, I should mentioned that this system was at my mom's and this morning I took it back and installed it and tested it. The only thing not working was the wireguard VPN I have from my home to her so I can do backups to a TrueNAS unit I have there and I saw the link down. I checked and I must have forgotten to check the "install packages" again. I installed wireguard and immediately the tunnel was up and all back to normal minus I am not in pfsense plus there. I was about to put my Netgate sg1100 there but there was no need.
Thank for those looking. I am not sure why the installed made me set the interfaces manually and then set the DHCP range before things were working again. -
On a CE install you would normally have to assign the NICs at first boot. Since it can be any NICs there is usually no default config to use. The exception to that is if you have two igb NICs.
The initial NIC setup appears on the primary console only. Which is why is seemed like you were probably just looking at the other console.
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@stephenw10 Hello,
The device has only two nics but when I installed pfsense plus they were detected right away properly as active and was able to choose WAN and LAN and it was good a detecting internet on the WAN interface. In any case it is working now. Thanks
