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    Pfsense boot fails

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

      Hello,

      I'm trying to install pfsense on an old Aspire 9300 Laptop with the following characteristics :

      Processor: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-50
      Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300 128 Mo
      120GB HDD

      I try to boot using an USB key or a CD and get stuck at the beggining while loading the Kernel.

      I tried several versions without any success, is their a compatibility issue with this kind of platform?

      Thanks in advance

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      • stephenw10S Offline
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        Not necessarily. Do you have a complete list of specs? What exact images are you trying to load? What error is shown? (if any)

        Some quick Googling seems to show some issues with this model and *BSD. Some workarounds might be: disabling ACPI in the BIOS. Using the F12 boot media selection to specify the boot device which seems to pass more useful info to the OS.

        Steve

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