Install PF 2 on 1TB disk fails to boot (HELP)

tbaror

Dear All,

I am trying to install PF 2.0 30 November version on a machine with 4GB RAM and 1 TB Disk all set in bios to pata
The problem is when i am choosing install quick installation its fails to boot i got the starting
F1 boot ,F5 Drive and the the sign / appear and stacked .
But after several manual attempts i managed to do 4GB partition and boot with it , i also noticed that the swap is appearing 4096MB which is the full space i have reduced it to 512MB and then its boots correctly.

My question is how can i get bigger space to work , what should be in general the swap file with FreeBsd?

Please advice

Thanks

jimp

Are you using the amd64 version of pfsense 2.0 or i386? You should be using amd64 on that kind of hardware if you can.

Also I wouldn't set the disk to pata in the BIOS if it's a sata drive; Use ahci or other sata modes if you can.

tbaror

@jimp:

Are you using the amd64 version of pfsense 2.0 or i386? You should be using amd64 on that kind of hardware if you can.

Also I wouldn't set the disk to pata in the BIOS if it's a sata drive; Use ahci or other sata modes if you can.

Hi Jimp,

Thanks for answer, i do using 64 bit version i tried everything sata and pata (there is no achi mode on Bios)
i manage to make it work with 40GB but only after i got with gparted and deleted the additional partition created by custom installation otherwise it wont boot , and after that i couldn't set any parameters (1. set interfaces )i had unexpexted error.

any idea
Thanks

jimp

Not sure what it might be then. Is your BIOS up to date?

I have FreeBSD 8.1 amd64 (same as pfSense uses) installed on my workstation which boots from a 1TB drive and has 8GB of RAM. No problems at all. I don't have a spare 1TB drive to try pfSense on though. Some BIOS implementations won't boot from a partition that large.

Though my root (/) slice is only 2GB and I have slices setup for other things (/tmp, /var, /usr, etc).

tbaror

@jimp:

Not sure what it might be then. Is your BIOS up to date?

I have FreeBSD 8.1 amd64 (same as pfSense uses) installed on my workstation which boots from a 1TB drive and has 8GB of RAM. No problems at all. I don't have a spare 1TB drive to try pfSense on though. Some BIOS implementations won't boot from a partition that large.

Though my root (/) slice is only 2GB and I have slices setup for other things (/tmp, /var, /usr, etc).

I forgot to mention that in the first place i did suspected that the Bios not updated and i did update it , it didn't change the situation.

you suggesting to slice it acutaly i managed to install it with freebsd distribution cd and slice the disk into 4GB where all are installed,another 4GB EMPY ,rest of space also empty
then i installed it on the first 4GB with 2 November version i got.

i have question would it be issue to have only 4GB drive ,otherwise would it be possible to redistribute /tmp etc.. actual to other location without reinstalling?

Thanks