2.0.1 amd64 nanobsd vga on Jetway NF96
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I have a Jetway NF96 board I'm attempting to run PFSense on. I successfully imaged my IDE flash drive with the appropriate image and can boot to it. The problem shows itself once bootup starts.
If I boot normally, I get a root mount error, and entering '?' to list drives shows nothing. This is odd, since I clearly booted to something.
If I try booting into safe mode, the boot hangs at IPSec: Initialized Security Association Processing.
At a bit of a loss here. I read online somewhere that PFSense has problems with DMA on IDE flash drives, but my BIOS only lets me change the DMA mode, not turn it off. I tried setting it to single word DMA 0, but that just caused some other horrible crash after a slew of DMA errors.
Any ideas?
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See
http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Booting_Options#Disable_DMA_for_IDE_drivesThat gets me a little further, all the way to "SMP: AP CPU #3 Launched!" where it hangs again.
A few lines up in the scrollback are some errors that seem related to my flash IDE drive:
ad0: 1970 MB <emphase fdm44xd12g="" 10051b="">at ata0_master PIO4
ad0: FAILURE - READ status=ff <busy,ready,dma_ready,dsc,dru,correctable,index,error>error=58 <uncorrectable,nid_not_found,media_change_reqest>lba=4035020</uncorrectable,nid_not_found,media_change_reqest></busy,ready,dma_ready,dsc,dru,correctable,index,error></emphase>
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See
http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Booting_Options#Disable_DMA_for_IDE_drivesThat gets me a little further, all the way to "SMP: AP CPU #3 Launched!" where it hangs again.
Hangs? If you tap a key does it get echoed to the screen?
Do you see any output if you type Ctrl-T (hold down the Ctrl key and tap the T key)?A few lines up in the scrollback are some errors that seem related to my flash IDE drive:
ad0: 1970 MB <emphase fdm44xd12g="" 10051b="">at ata0_master PIO4
ad0: FAILURE - READ status=ff <busy,ready,dma_ready,dsc,dru,correctable,index,error>error=58 <uncorrectable,nid_not_found,media_change_reqest>lba=4035020</uncorrectable,nid_not_found,media_change_reqest></busy,ready,dma_ready,dsc,dru,correctable,index,error></emphase>Hard drive is using PIO4, not DMA!
Hard drive reports its capacity as 1970MB. The system reports it can't find sector 4, 035, 020 which is about 2GB. I suspect the image you are using might be JUST too big for the drive. What is the name of the pfSense file you imaged to the hard drive.
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Hard drive is using PIO4, not DMA!
Hard drive reports its capacity as 1970MB. The system reports it can't find sector 4, 035, 020 which is about 2GB. I suspect the image you are using might be JUST too big for the drive. What is the name of the pfSense file you imaged to the hard drive.
I did indeed image it with the 2g image, however, I discovered that wasn't the problem. After some digging around, I found some other people on the forum using the same setup that I am. Turns out the parallel port interferes with the 3-port LAN daughter card and causes pfSense to fail boot. If I disable the parallel port from BIOS, pfSense boots just fine.
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Turns out the parallel port interferes with the 3-port LAN daughter card and causes pfSense to fail boot. If I disable the parallel port from BIOS, pfSense boots just fine.
Does it still report the read failure on LBA 4035020?
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Turns out the parallel port interferes with the 3-port LAN daughter card and causes pfSense to fail boot. If I disable the parallel port from BIOS, pfSense boots just fine.
Does it still report the read failure on LBA 4035020?
I didn't bother to check. Reimaging with the 1g image now.
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The 'NID not found' errors seems to be relatively common. Such that there's a article in the wiki:
http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/DMA_and_LBA_Errors
If it is a mismatch between the reported size and the actual size that's something I might expect from a super cheap CF card but I would hope for better from an industrial flash module. ::)Steve
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So basically since I tried to reimage, I've been screwed. I boot with an extra drive that has Ubuntu server on it (along with the images I'm trying to apply to my flash IDE drive), but when I start the copy (using dd), it ultimately hangs my OS with a slew of DMA errors being spewed to the terminal. The dd command I'm running looks like so:
sudo dd if=pfSense…img of=/dev/sda
Where /dev/sda is the IDE flash drive and /dev/sdb is my Ubuntu server disk.
I'm honestly at a loss. I think this IDE flash drive might just be total crap. It's an Emphase 2Gb IDE flash drive, not sure if anyone's had any experience with them. Any suggestions for where I can find a slim IDE or sata flash drive for this sort of application that doesn't totally suck?
