[SOLVED]install on gigabyte GB-BXBT-2807

[vsf]

Hi,

I'm trying to install opnsense on a gigabyte GB-BXBT-2807 with 4Gb Ram and 120 Gb SSD.
Ubuntu Installs works perfectly,
With Opnsense, he process seems ok but when The machine reboots on the SSD drive it says boot : 1- OPNsense and keeps rebooting... (same with PFsense)
 I tried with a standard HDD, same endless rebooting...
Any idea ?

Thank you.

[weust]

Which image did you use?

[vsf]

I used this image :

OPNsense-15.7.11-OpenSSL-vga-i386.img

written on a usb stick. The machine did boot and installed (with sometimes messages that looks like errors but the process did continue untill the end.

[weust]

Not sure it matters for booting, but on a system like that I'd use the x64 image.

[vsf]

I tried "OPNsense-15.7.11-OpenSSL-vga-amd64.img",
It boots from usb but then exit before installing on ssd...
(I don't know how to get the scrolling msg during the process to send them with my reply ;-(

[franco]

Will this box run a stock FreeBSD 10.1? If so we can retrofit opnsense afterwards, skipping the boot problems I know FreeBSD has a better handle on. Should, however, FreeBSD 10.1 not work we are out of luck with this hardware.

[weust]

FreeBSD uses the Scroll Lock key to enable scrolling, then use the arrow keys or Page Up/Down to scroll.

[vsf]

In fact the ssd drive was on error with" Invalid partition table - recursive partition on sda" (I saw that from live session ubuntu)
I fixed this with
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M
Then the install process with "OPNsense-15.7.11-OpenSSL-vga-amd64.img" worked and reboot on ssd seems to work !

Thank you !

[weust]

Was the SSD previously used for something else, like a VMWare data store?
I had that last year with a drive which wasn't usable in Linux anymore because of the way it was formatted.
After doing a dd with 2048 I got everything VMWare off of it.

[franco]

Wow, great work, vsf! Enjoy.