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19.1 Legacy Series / Clean installation boot problem and fix for QOTOM Micro PC
« on: February 14, 2019, 08:12:32 am »
Hi all.
I have just completed a clean install of OPNsense v19.1, but had to work around a problem that appears to be similar to that discussed above. However the workaround for me doesn't seem to fit well with some of the suggestions above, laying the blame at the feet of the UEFI Boot process.
So, for the record... I have just installed v19.1 (vga) on a QOTOM-Q190G4 box (physical hardware).
Installation attempts failed by hanging after the kernel loaded its collection of kernel modules and the "Booting" line of text appeared. Nothing further was shown on the screen although USB drive activity continued for some time. I have seen kernel panic messages on Linux consoles, but I don't know whether a BSD kernel panic message would be expected on the display at this point, if there was such an event here. So, with nothing on the display (and nothing yet configured, so no network testing possible) this could conceivably be the same kernel panic referenced in this forum thread.
The fix: So far, this box's BIOS had been set to traditional MBR BIOS boot (non-UEFI). Somewhat unexpectedly after the comments above, once the system BIOS setting was changed to use UEFI boot, the boot process (and subsequent live operation and then installation) of OPNsense v19.1 went through without a hitch.
Whether this is related to the kernel panics discussed above or not, I can't be sure. However it does confirm a surprising and similar boot problem, and the corresponding solution, at least for this pairing of hardware and OPNsense release. Hopefully that may assist some others.
I have just completed a clean install of OPNsense v19.1, but had to work around a problem that appears to be similar to that discussed above. However the workaround for me doesn't seem to fit well with some of the suggestions above, laying the blame at the feet of the UEFI Boot process.
So, for the record... I have just installed v19.1 (vga) on a QOTOM-Q190G4 box (physical hardware).
Installation attempts failed by hanging after the kernel loaded its collection of kernel modules and the "Booting" line of text appeared. Nothing further was shown on the screen although USB drive activity continued for some time. I have seen kernel panic messages on Linux consoles, but I don't know whether a BSD kernel panic message would be expected on the display at this point, if there was such an event here. So, with nothing on the display (and nothing yet configured, so no network testing possible) this could conceivably be the same kernel panic referenced in this forum thread.
The fix: So far, this box's BIOS had been set to traditional MBR BIOS boot (non-UEFI). Somewhat unexpectedly after the comments above, once the system BIOS setting was changed to use UEFI boot, the boot process (and subsequent live operation and then installation) of OPNsense v19.1 went through without a hitch.
Whether this is related to the kernel panics discussed above or not, I can't be sure. However it does confirm a surprising and similar boot problem, and the corresponding solution, at least for this pairing of hardware and OPNsense release. Hopefully that may assist some others.