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Archive => 20.7 Legacy Series => Topic started by: jr-firewall on September 27, 2020, 09:26:25 pm

Title: can't install 20.7
Post by: jr-firewall on September 27, 2020, 09:26:25 pm

Trying to install 20.7 on new hardware. The DVD boots fine. If I log in with installer <password>, I get dumped into a GUI, where I can move the arrow-mouse-cursor, but clicks are not recognized. I can move with arrow keys on the keyboard, and make selections. After just a couple of screens, it totally hangs (can't get selection to move or be recognized).

I can Ctrl-Alt-Delete and reboot. Next time in, I log in with root <password>, select 8 (shell), enter opnsense-installer, and get dumped back to that same GUI, where I can work with a couple of screens and then it becomes unresponsive.

Is there some sort of option I can use somewhere somehow to get a good-old-text-only installation?

Any idea why it seems to be so unhappy with my built-in graphics?

Edit: add hardware details
Motherboard: Gigabyte B450M DS3H
CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 3200G with Radeon Vega 8 Graphics
Memory: Crucial 8GBDDR4-3200 UDIMM


Thanks.

Title: Re: can't install 20.7
Post by: pimpex on October 12, 2020, 11:10:46 am

we see similar behaviour on all machines with unsupported graphics, like Supermicro mainboards.
in such case, we copy a config xml on installation media. shortly after boot monitor graphics can start hanging (at blue booting... already), but system will install and autoimport configuration, after reboot you are able to access the machine according to xml config. I hope this helps to install opnsense on all such machines

Title: Re: can't install 20.7
Post by: jr-firewall on October 24, 2020, 09:12:05 pm

Thanks, pimpex, for your response.

I have been trying to install from the dvd iso, and could not figure out how to get any file on that without jumping through some flaming hoops. But it did get me thinking in a different direction.

I had tried to install on older hardware from the vga img, and failed miserably. However, I gave it a fresh try today on my new hardware, and it actually installed!

Question for someone who knows more than I do: is the code in the dvd install different from the the code in the vga install? Or is this from some quirk that I'm completely ignorant of?

Anyway, I went on to upgrade to the latest-and-greatest version from the console. I had a bit of trouble with syslog-ng, and found plenty of posts about that. I got it straightened out (re-ran upgrade to finish it, and let it reboot after that).

I am off-and-configuring and should have this upgraded firewall in place shortly.