Questions about installation on SATA-Drives

whiggy

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.

stephenw10

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

whiggy

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

stephenw10

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

Steve

marcelloc

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

whiggy

OK Thank you!

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