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    Problems in installing on AMD E-300 based board

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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      Khalid Ali
      last edited by

      Hi All,
      I am having some issues in installing pFsense on this system (mini pc) AMD E300 CPU.
      The issue I am having is (I am certain some how hard drive is not found) this, I use external cd-rom drive,
      start the system, it all starts ok,
      it shows the menu where there are options from 1 to 8, I allow it go with default after that, it reaches following line and then stalls

      atrtc0: <at realtime="" clock="">port 0x70-0x71 irq 8 on acpi0</at>

      I have left the system over night, have tried pfsense 1.2.3, to the most current snapshot builds of feb 8.
      I have tried 2.5" hdds of multiple brands etc, used usb drive, used CF card, but nothing worked, in every effort it would stall at the line mentioned above.

      then i tried to install winxp on the same system but it said it cant find hard drive, then I installed win 7 and that got installed correctly.
      So I concluded that its the problem with SATA drivers, but I am at loss from this point onward and need some ones suggestions.

      Thanks

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        wallabybob
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        If you haven't already, try a snapshot build of pfSense 2.1. It has much more up to date device drivers than any of the pfSense 2.0.x series.

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          Khalid Ali
          last edited by

          Thanks for suggestion, but I guess you missed in my post that I have installed snapshot build dated feb 9, just 3 days ago, with no luck

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            wallabybob
            last edited by

            @Khalid:

            Thanks for suggestion, but I guess you missed in my post that I have installed snapshot build dated feb 9, just 3 days ago, with no luck

            But you didn't specify if you used snapshot builds of pfSense 2.0.3 or snapshot builds of pfSense 2.1 or both!

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              Khalid Ali
              last edited by

              @Khalid:

              …....I have left the system over night, have tried pfsense 1.2.3, to the most current snapshot builds of feb 8…...

              Again thanks for taking your time. To answer ur suggestion, yes I have tried 2.1 snapshot build without success..

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                Khalid Ali
                last edited by

                Here is the screenshot where installation stalls..thanks

                20130210_1608071644290767.jpg
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                • jimpJ
                  jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                  last edited by

                  At the boot menu, choose the option to do a Verbose boot. See if it stops at a different place.

                  You might also try the option to boot without ACPI.

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                    Khalid Ali
                    last edited by

                    Thanks, Will post results tonight after I get home and make the changes.

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                      Khalid Ali
                      last edited by

                      Hello,
                      here are the screenshots of your suggestions, as you can see it stops on 2 different points,
                      in verbose and then when acpi is disabled, however result is still the same that I am not able to move forward on installation

                      pfsense_verbose_.jpg
                      pfsense_verbose_.jpg_thumb
                      pfsense_acpi_disabled_.jpg
                      pfsense_acpi_disabled_.jpg_thumb

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                        Khalid Ali
                        last edited by

                        Well its unfortunate that I did not get any suggestions on this thread. I am posting this for closure of this threads purposes.
                        What I ended up doing is used another mini pc which was intel Atom based, pfsense 2.0.2 installation was fine as intended, setting up vlans was a bit of challenge(because of my lack of networking knowledge). At the end with a friends suggestion, I was able to create vlans and use them with singl NIC settings. I used netgear GS108e switch.

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