Help || instalation

[Ck1611]

Hi friends,

I am trying to install opsense 20.7 on my old pc.
Gigabyte ga 946gmx s2
Core 2duo e4500
4gb ram
160gb hdd
Intel nic card gigabit one with 2 ports

I have tried to install with nano,serial and vga
All of them are failing to install.
I dont get a blue screen to install
It boots from usb
Then I get that opnsense image
It starts to boot automatically after some time
There's a black screen with device vanished
Not sure if I am missing anything here.

Error:uhhub_reattach_port:giving up port reset - device vanished

Seeking help
Its for home use non commercial
Trying to learn and setup opnsense.

Thanks
-Chandan k

[npiersma]

Hi Chandan,

I understand you need some help here. First, let us try to get rid of any no-brainers, you may have done so, but I just want to be sure.

1. Update your 946gmx bios
2. Reset the bios to factory defaults
3. enable USB booting

Now that we have covered that let's go to the USB booting part. (Assuming Windows)
1. Get a decent USB stick, not a 50 cents aliexpress one.
2. download your image from opnsense.org/download
- get amd64 / vga
3. You should end up with "OPNsense-20.7-OpenSSL-vga-amd64.img.bz2"
4. Use 7-zip to extract the img file from the bz2 file
5. Now you should have  a 1,8Gb img file
6. Start Win32Disk imager
7. Select "OPNsense-20.7-OpenSSL-vga-amd64.img" as the Image file
8. Select your favorite USB stick as "Device"
9. select Write
You are now on you way in frying a OPNSense bootable USB stick.

Once finished, remove it from your PC and insert it in the designated firewall.
You should now see OPNSense booting.
Log in using "installer" to get in installed to your Firewall.

Good luck

[Ck1611]

Hi,

Thank you for you reply.
I have tried updating BIOS and re-setting it to default.
and while trying to install opnsesne 20.7, there is an error
USB vanished.
Error image:-https://ibb.co/dkv7cP1

Not sure if anything is been missed

Thanks
-Chandan K

[Fright]

so in the end your usb stick is recognised
whats next? system freezes or what?
do you have an older usb flash (8-16GB plain old flash)?

[Ck1611]

Hi,
 
Yes it just gets frozen there in the screenshot attached above.
i do have memory cards sandisk class 10, but no usb's

[littlepepper]

Try another USB or another USB port. It sounds like a hardware problem rather than Opnsense.

[Fright]

you can try 20.1.9 since freebsd 12 have some usb issues but imho changing flash drive may help

[Ck1611]

Thank you all.

It was a hardware issue .
I was using front USB ports to install opnsense.
when tried to install with back usb ports it worked.

Thank you all for the support.

Thanks
-Chandan K