Problems installing pfSense 2.0 BETA1 (Jan 8 Snapshot)

hest

Ive got a tiny machine (via cpu etc) without cdrom for my router purposes.
I thought id try pfsense 2.0, installing by a usb cdrom (i am already running 1.2.3 on the machine)

I boot from the CD and everything looks good, i get the Welcome to FreeBSD menu where i choose 1 (default) freebsd installation. (safe mode fails same way as well)
When the installer tries to start, it stops at mount error:

Root mount waiting for: usbus0
umass0:0:0 Attached to scbus0
Trying to mount root from cd9660:/dev/iso9660/pfSense
ROOT MOUNT ERROR:
If you have invalid mount options, reboot, and first try the following from the loader prompt:

set vfs.root.mountfrom.options=rw

And then remove invalid mount options from /etc/fstab

Loader variables:
vfs.root.mountfrom=cd9660:/dev/iso9660/pfSense
vfs.root.mountfrom.options=ro

Then i get mountroot, i try to cd9660:/dev/usbus0, but i still get error.

How could i resolve this? Is it a major bug?

Slam

I have come across this problem too, if I recall correctly it booted for me with the following:

cd9660:/dev/iso9660/pfSense

enter the above right after you see

mountroot>

and hit enter.

Slam

hest

I have tried this without success :-[

Also tried to run the install without acpi, but still gets thrown the same error.

Is this a FreeBSD8.0 bug perhaps?

hest

I did some googling:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-October/012361.html

Could this have something to do with this?

is pfSense based on 8.0-RELEASE, or a custom CURRENT tree?

hest

Really looks like a FreeBSD8.0 bug:

http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-usb@freebsd.org/msg05644.html
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=9630

Havent found a solution though, i only need a quickfix to get the installed going so i cant get 2.0 on my HDD :)

Tips are greatly appreciated!

Slam

You can try this as I dont really remember how I got it working exactly, unplug the usb cable when you get the error, plug the cable back in then enter "cd9660:/dev/iso9660/pfSense" (w/out quotations) on the console.

If that fails then you could try installing pfsense 1.2.3 release and upgrade to pfsense 2.0 from the webgui.

Slam

cmb

Right now we're building off RELENG_8_0, probably switching to RELENG_8 (later 8_1) at some point.

mjf

Anyone been able to find a workaround for this? Nothing I've tried so far has worked. I've used 3 different USB DVD drives with the same result. Also the vanilla FreeBSD 8.0 iso boots up with no issue.

cmb

It's apparently hardware-specific, and even USB port specific, but not CD/DVD drive specific. I have one USB DVD drive I use that won't work on some hardware, works fine on one box I test with a lot but only in one of its USB ports and only if the USB keyboard is plugged into a different bank of USB ports.

We did implement a patch by Andrew Thompson that should fix some of these scenarios, if you're on the newest snapshot it should be there.

mjf

Tested yesterday with the 2/7 snapshot with the same results unfortunately. I only have 2 USB ports on my pfsense system; both on the same controller so neither works. Looks like for now the only work around may be to open up the case to connect an IDE or SATA drive.