Live Boot Hanging During Install

[Modular]

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!

[marjohn56]

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

[Modular]

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.

[franco]

You are saying bootstrap doesn't work... because of the FreeBSD installer?


Cheers,
Franco

[ledufakademy]

same issue here.

"Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ufs/OPNsense_Install [ro,noatime]"
GEOM: new disk ada1

and nothing ....

In verbose

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kbd0 at atkbd0
kbd0: atkbd0, generic (0), config:0x0, flags:0x1f0000
ioapic0: routing intpin 1 (ISA IRQ 1) to lapic 1 vector 64
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
random: harvesting attach, 8 bytes (4 bits) from atkbd0
psm0: unable to allocate IRQ
random: harvesting attach, 8 bytes (4 bits) from atkbdc0
pcib0: allocated type 4 (0x3f0-0x3f5) for rid 0 of fdc0
pcib0: allocated type 4 (0x3f7-0x3f7) for rid 1 of fdc0
fdc0 failed to probe at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
isa_probe_children: probing PnP devices
est0: <Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control> on cpu0
est: CPU supports Enhanced Speedstep, but is not recognized.
est: cpu_vendor GenuineIntel, msr 61a4c2106004c21
device_attach: est0 attach returned 6
est1: <Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control> on cpu1
est: CPU supports Enhanced Speedstep, but is not recognized.
est: cpu_vendor GenuineIntel, msr 61a4c2106004c21
device_attach: est1 attach returned 6
Device configuration finished.
procfs registered
lapic: Divisor 2, Frequency 99752039 Hz
Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
vlan: initialized, using hash tables with chaining
lo0: bpf attached
enc0: bpf attached
IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.
tcp_init: net.inet.tcp.tcbhashsize auto tuned to 16384
pflog0: bpf attached
pfsync0: bpf attached
hptnr: no controller detected.
hptrr: no controller detected.
hpt27xx: no controller detected.
ugen0.1: <Intel UHCI root HUB> at usbus0
ugen4.1: <Intel EHCI root HUB> at usbus4
uhub0: <Intel UHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus0
uhub1: <Intel EHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus4
ugen1.1: <Intel UHCI root HUB> at usbus1
ugen3.1: <Intel UHCI root HUB> at usbus3
uhub2: <Intel UHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus1
ata0: reset tp1 mask=03 ostat0=50 ostat1=00
uhub3: <Intel UHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus3
ugen2.1: <Intel UHCI root HUB> at usbus2
uhub4: <Intel UHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus2
ata0: stat0=0x50 err=0x01 lsb=0x00 msb=0x00
ata0: stat1=0x00 err=0x00 lsb=0x00 msb=0x00
ata0: reset tp2 stat0=50 stat1=00 devices=0x1
ata0: DMA limited to UDMA33, controller found non-ATA66 cable
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
random: harvesting attach, 8 bytes (4 bits) from uhub0
uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
random: harvesting attach, 8 bytes (4 bits) from uhub2
uhub3: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
random: harvesting attach, 8 bytes (4 bits) from uhub3
uhub4: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
random: harvesting attach, 8 bytes (4 bits) from uhub4
ata2: SATA reset: ports status=0x04
ata2: p0: SATA connect timeout status=00000000
ata2: p1: SATA connect time=0ms status=00000123
ata2: reset tp1 mask=03 ostat0=7f ostat1=50
ata2: stat0=0x7f err=0x00 lsb=0xff msb=0xff
ata2: stat1=0x50 err=0x01 lsb=0x00 msb=0x00
ata2: reset tp2 stat0=7f stat1=50 devices=0x2
ata3: SATA reset: ports status=0x00
ata3: p0: SATA connect timeout status=00000000
ata3: p1: SATA connect timeout status=00000000
uhub1: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered
random: harvesting attach, 8 bytes (4 bits) from uhub1
pass0 at ata0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
pass0: <CF CARD Ver7.04> ATA-5 device
pass0: Serial Number 5B6A13EB0
pass0: 33.300MB/s transfers (UDMA2, PIO 512bytes)
pass1 at ata2 bus 0 scbus1 target 1 lun 0
pass1: <TOSHIBA MK1655GSX FG011C> ATA8-ACS SATA 2.x device
pass1: Serial Number 69LBF40GS
pass1: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA5, PIO 8192bytes)
ada0 at ata0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
GEOM: new disk ada0
ada0: <CF CARD Ver7.04> ATA-5 device
ada0: Serial Number 5B6A13EB0
ada0: 33.300MB/s transfers (UDMA2, PIO 512bytes)
ada0: 3811MB (7806960 512 byte sectors)
ada1 at ata2 bus 0 scbus1 target 1 lun 0
ada1: <TOSHIBA MK1655GSX FG011C> ATA8-ACS SATA 2.x device
ada1: Serial Number 69LBF40GS
ada1: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA5, PIO 8192bytes)
ada1: 152627MB (312581808 512 byte sectors)
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ufs/OPNsense_Install [ro,noatime]...
GEOM: new disk ada1