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    Questions about installation on SATA-Drives

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      whiggy
      last edited by

      Hello @ all!

      Yesterday, I tried to install pfsense on an SATA-Drive on the onboard SATA-Controller of an Asrock 775i65G Mainboard.
      I changed the SATA mode in bios to the "compatibility mode" to emulate lagacy IDE controller on SATA.

      I installed pfsense without any problems but after the restart, pfsense will not boot. It hangs up on the selection menu (F1 for pfsense, F6 for PXE)
      I tried the installation many many times and I tested with various of bios settings but it will not work. (also with another SATA disk)

      So, after this, I attached a real IDE-Harddisk and now, pfsense starts without any problem.

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        There's no question in that.  ;)
        Good facts though.

        Have you looked at and tried any of this:
        http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Boot_Troubleshooting

        What size was the SATA disk?

        Steve

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          whiggy
          last edited by

          I'ts a 250GB Harddisk.
          Do you mean that it's the Boot Blocks/Loader Issues?

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            I was thinking that the bootloader can't cope with a single large partition. Try using a much smaller partition as described.

            Steve

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            • marcellocM
              marcelloc
              last edited by

              Try to change sata mode to enhanced and split partitions just like stephenw10 said.

              There is a topic about disk performance that could help too.

              http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,43737.0.html

              Treinamentos de Elite: http://sys-squad.com

              Help a community developer! ;D

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                whiggy
                last edited by

                OK Thank you!

                I tried change to enhance mode, but also without success.
                In an next step I will try with smaller partitions.

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