Alix 2c3 w/ 2/8/08 snapshot hangs at DHCP
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I'm testing the Alix board listed above. It works fine w/ the 512MB card which came w/ the board & monowall.
I may have the date on the snapshot wrong, but it was the newest image I could find last night. I wrote the image to a 1GB card using physdiskwrite under Windows XP. Pfsense hangs at DHCP. I watch it boot via the serial port. (I don't have the router at this location so I can't get exact error message.) It doesn't matter if the WAN & LAN devices are plugged in. It hangs at the same point either way. Any known issues I should be aware of?
edited to add: There is no error message. I don't have the exact message on the screen when it hangs, but IIRC it's "Starting DHCP service" w/ the cursor on the next line. I have waited over an hour & it never went past that point.
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Upgrade to the latest snapshot from snapshots.pfsense.org .. Also search before posting. This EXACT question has been posted at least 5 times now.
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Upgrade to the latest snapshot from snapshots.pfsense.org .. Also search before posting. This EXACT question has been posted at least 5 times now.
Unless I made a mistake I am running the latest snapshot. I put that info in my subject. I got this image
http://snapshots.pfsense.com/FreeBSD6/RELENG_1_2/embedded/pfSense.img.gz
I did a search before & found this thread
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,6729.135.htmlI'm already running BIOS version .99 & AFAIK I'm running the latest snapshot. That seems to cover the problems I saw in the threads I read. I'm sorry if I missed anything, and while I didn't post that I searched the forum, I did search before I posted this. Did I grab the wrong snapshot?
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I booted a Alix 2c2 with RC4 last week. Its upgraded now to RC5 but I had no boot problems at all with BIOS 0.99 and RC4 when I first installed it. Try RC4 and see if your problem is resolved. If it does, then you could always do a console upgrade to get the changes/fixes in a current snapshot.
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Well, I got it to run pfSense. it was definitely a learning experience. I have RC4 running on it at this time. I kept having the problem w/ it hanging at DHCP. Tried different CF cards, tried writing the images in Linux (Ubuntu 7.10) and Windows. Nothing fixed it.
I ended up writing several a couple of cards w/ FreeDOS & DOS 6.22 & copied the most recent BIOS upgrade to them. FreeDOS didn't have enough free memory to run the BIOS upgrade but DOS 6.22 did. Once I upgraded the firmware I got pfSense 1.2RC4 to boot & load. It's running now, and my ipsec VPN tunnel is working. I'll watch this for a few days & see if things are stable.
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I had the same problem as jhereg - was able to fix it by loading the 'highmem' driver under freedos. Flashing the .99 bios to my Alix the worked flawless after that.
