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20.1 Legacy Series / Re: Live Boot Hanging During Install

« on: April 13, 2020, 03:18:15 am »

Odd,  Read and try this, namely the bootstrap method. Usually used for ZFS, but can be useful in other situations.


https://github.com/opnsense/update#opnsense-bootstrap

Thanks for  the reply. We had already tried that and unfortunately, the installer hangs at the same spot.

Any other suggestions are certainly welcome.

We were able to get pfsense to install no problem today, but both prefer to use OPNsense if possible. Hoping for a solution here. I can't imagine we're the only two using older AMD hardware with OPNsense that are having this issue.

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20.1 Legacy Series / Live Boot Hanging During Install

« on: April 12, 2020, 02:29:41 am »

Friend of mine and I are having the same issue with our installation of OPNsense. We have identical hardware and have been trying to figure this out for a few days to no avail.

The installer consistently hangs on "Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ufs/OPNsense_Install [ro,noatime]..."

I've also had the error: GEOM: diskid/disk [diskID here]: the secondary GPT header is not in the last LBA"


Hardware specs:
AMD Athlon 2 X4 935
Biostar A760g m2+
4gb RAM
HD 6450
Intel EXPI9404PTLBLK NIC

Things we've tried so far include:
-Different Flash software to write the USB sticks
-Different USB drives (verified that this will install on newer hardware)
-Installed FreeBSD 11.2 and bootstrapped the install from github - same error when mounting root drive
-Boot and open terminal to add "set kern.vty=sc" as well as "set hw.vga.acpi._ignore_no_vga="1""
-Ran it in serial console to see if it was actually installing in the background but not updating the VGA screen
-Edited the GPT checksum on the disk with HxD
-Reconfigured the partition to MBR
Tried every installer, including the Nano version, .iso, .img -- haven't tried i386 though...
-Changed every BIOS setting

MOBO is updated to latest BIOS. We can get freeBSD to install and boot, so it's not the problem. Something with OPNsense just isn't playing right. Any help is greatly appreciated!