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    Struggling with boot up

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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      Lectrician
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      I am struggling to get my new install of PFsense to boot - It gets stuck with this:

      F1  FreeBSD

      Boot:  F1
      |

      with a flahing cursor under the |

      There is a cursor flashing under the |

      It just doesn't want to boot at all.

      I have checked the bios settings and changed the disk settings as recommended in another post to LRC (sorry could be different letters!).

      I am using a drive which have the ribbon cable!  Is that P-ATA?  The one that has the 4 pins with little jumpers.

      This PC is around 3 years old I guess - Sony Vaio AMD 2400+.

      I wil see if I can upgrade the BIOS….

      Any advice would be great.

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        Lectrician
        last edited by

        OK, managed to fix it, although not sure how.

        I just tried different combo's from the documentation on boot up issues and it finally worked…

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