Installing pfSense 2.0 on a Dell PowerEdge R210
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Isso mesmo muito obrigado por sua informação que me ajudou muito, eu utilizo um IBM ThinkCentre e estava utilizando um teclado generico, havia testado até a troca do HD original WesterDigital por um Samsung de 80GB e de nada adiantou, mas após ler este post troquei o teclado pelo original da IBM ThinkCentre e tudo foi resolvido…
Estou no Brasil e você do outro lado do mundo me ajudou, por isso eu digo: VIVA A LIBERDADE DO ACESSO A INFORMAÇÃO E ABAIXO AO S.O.P.A. ;D(translation)
That's right, thank you for your information that helped me, I use an IBM ThinkCentre and was using a generic keyboard, there were tested up to replace the original HD WesterDigital for a 80GB and Samsung to no avail, but after reading this post I changed the keyboard by the original IBM ThinkCentre and everything was resolved ...
I'm in Brazil and you across the world has helped me, so I say: LONG LIVE FREEDOM OF ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND BELOW THE S.O.P.A. ;D----------------------------------X
@Alexios:Hallo,
i had the same problem
PC HP DC7800 and my installation with Pfsense 2.0 RC1 stopped everytime at
38% in step /usr/local/bin/cpdup -vvv -l -o /usr/mnt/usr -too.I had installed earlier on the same PC Pfsense 1.23 and it worked.
First I checked the Bios settings, second different installation settings - no solution.But then i remembered that the only difference on my PC between Pfsense 2.0 RC1 and my Pfsense 1.23 installation was my Keyboard.
It sounds suspicious but with my Fujitsu-Siemens Keyboard PX PS2 my installation stopped everytime at 38% in step /usr/local/bin/cpdup -vvv -l -o /usr/mnt/usr .
With my Cherry Keyboard G83-6744 USB the installation with Pfsense 2.0 RC1 works fine now.
Someone made the same experience?
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Another owner of Dell PowerEDGE R210 here. Tried to install 2.0.1-RELEASE amd64 and experienced the famous 'hang at 38%' problem. Enabling VT and disabling C-states in BIOS didn't help. I didn't try other solutions suggested in this thread. Instead I updated the BIOS to 1.8.2 (I started out with 1.3.4). After BIOS update the installation went smoothly.
In order to be able to update the BIOS, I had to temporarily install Linux (I used SLES11 SP1, because that's what I happened to have at hand).
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thanks for the input vatson.
I've got a couple of 210's to do next month so I'll try your tip. -
In order to be able to update the BIOS, I had to temporarily install Linux (I used SLES11 SP1, because that's what I happened to have at hand).
Well, You didn't have to :)
Install Dell Repository Manager somewhere, take Dell Service DVD (now the latest version is 7.0.0), download SUU Linux repository for Your server, then expose it over NFS, and then run update of BIOS and all firmwares at once from this DVD..
I did it recently and strongly recommend this method, since we've failed with different firmware update method, which rendered Dell server unbootable..