Hi all,
I got this firewall recommended from a friend and now want to install it to an old computer with the following hardware:
Intel Pentium (R) CPU G 645 @ 2,9 GHz, a dual core cpu
RAM: 4 Gigabyte (2 x 2048 MB) of DDR3
HDD: 128GB SSD, fresh from the blister package
I used the newest version of Rufus (3.11) to get the image to my USB stick, physdiskwrite didn't want to do the job. Booting works fine, but when I get to the line where it says "Booting..." , EFI framebuffer etc.., it either hangs or reboots after a few seconds. I tried different sticks to boot from, I tried <set vm.pmap.pti="0"> and another <set vm.> option that I don't remember and can't find :-p
If anyone has an idea, I'm very grateful to try it out. Thanks in advance!
I have experienced this as well; in my case it came from a bad USB flash drive. Try another one.
Other things to try are:
- reset BIOS to defaults and start from there
- in BIOS, switch SATA operation mode from RAID to AHCI (preferably) or IDE
- update the BIOS of the computer
- use another USB port on the pc, as on older mainboards the USB3 ports (the blue marked ones) may be on another controller than USB2 ports
If what dinguz doesn't work, write the nano version onto a USB drive. Then run the installer off the USB from shell after it loads. You can find more instructions below:
Should the installer user not work for any reason, log in as user "installer", select option 8 from the menu and type "opnsense-installer".
https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/install.html
*Edited user to installer
You need to use the user "installer," not "root."
You're 100% right.
I tried several usb flash drives, now I'm going with a 2GB one and the nano image installer, using a front usb port and that brings me past the error message on the first try! Thank you very much guys!
On a side note: the installer user doesn't work, root does with the password mentioned on the linked website. Now I have to figure out how to properly install :-)