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Title: Install on old hardware (PC amd64)
Post by: Arno on January 14, 2021, 03:40:30 PM

Hi everyone,

For testing I want to install on an old PC (Athon II 160u).
The usb install crashes, I think, when trying to mount the HDD.
The text on the screen is ureadable too. Only the top (or bottom) half is visible.

It's a SATA disk but in the BIOS the option is grey and is 'Native IDE'.

pfSense 2.5-dev does install but there I'm having issues with imgp proxy.
Regardless of this issue I want to try OPNsense.

Is there a way to install OPNsense for me? Maybe a disk image (vga) similar to nano (console) or a setting I can do so the disk can be mounted and the install can continue.

Title: Re: Install on old hardware (PC amd64)
Post by: franco on January 14, 2021, 03:49:40 PM

Hi Arno,

Just dd nano image to hard disk. It will expand root partition after boot. No install needed.

Cheers,
Franco

Title: Re: Install on old hardware (PC amd64)
Post by: Arno on January 16, 2021, 02:39:01 PM

First I used dd then using grub2 on linux for multiboot I tried to boot with

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chainloader +1

and

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chainloader (hd0,8)/boot/boot

Also modified /etc/fstab to

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/dev/ada0s8a to be sure the correct partition would boot.

OPNsense did not boot.
What configuration can I use for grub2 to boot OPNsense?

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