PfSense LiveCD doesn't boot on Dell PowerVault 750, other Live cds do boot
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I've burned the LiveCD of pfSense RC1 and tested it's booting ability on another computer. However, when I put it in my Dell PowerVault 750N, it doesn't boot. It can boot other live cds (Ubuntu Linux 6.10 as a test) but not the pfSense one. Any ideas? Since I can boot into other live distros, is there a way to do a manual install after I've booted into another os?
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Please see http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=BootTroubleShooting
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I pretty much followed that. I also setup sbm to boot to see if that would work with the cd however that didn't work either. What did work though is booting from a pfSense 1.0 disk so it seems as if something has changed with the image since then? I'm going to do an install of 1.0 and then upgrade, but I wonder what changed in the image to not boot to this older server?
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PV750's don't have CD-ROM drives, are you using a USB CD-ROM? USB CD-ROM's don't work, unfortunately. The onboard IDE on those is crippled so you cannot attach an IDE CD-ROM even if you open up the box, though it does have IDE ports on the motherboard. It also has issues using and/or booting from a PCI IDE card (regardless of OS), I've tried that as well.
This is a special purpose NAS device and has other BIOS limitations as well, I've spent quite a bit of time hacking one of these things, they're intentionally a real mess to get anything running other than the Windows Storage Server provided by Dell.
I would suggest finding a normal, unrestricted piece of hardware to use. These things aren't a good candidate for running anything other than the Dell-provided OS.
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Hello
just some info about my experiances.
with linux there are issues with core 2 duos and ide devices, usually linux doesnt boot or doesnt detect the ide device. since linux is usually more up to date with hardware I would asume that bsd has some catch up to do before it works properly
Try using a sata hard drive and an external usb cd rom drive