Can't login to installer

[Neismark]

Hi guys,

I just tried to install 19.7 "jacky jaguar" on a Supermicro X11SBA-LN4F board. After some tweaking (The OPNsense installer needs "kern.vty=sc" to boot), I did get the installer to boot ok. However, when I get the "Welcome! Both 'root' and 'installer' users are available for system setup..." message and the "FreeBSD/amd64 (OPNsense.localdomain) (ttyXXX)" login prompt, I tried 'root' and 'installer' with the password 'opnsense' - both showing 'login incorrect'. I tried it numerous times; I also configured a notebook in the net 192.168.1.0/24 and tried ssh from there - same result: 'login incorrect'. I had tried 19.1 before and had been stuck at the same point.

Somehow I have a gut feeling that I'm missing something obvious - however, I'm really stuck and get no further.

Anybody got any hints what I am doing wrong!?
Any help appreciated.

Regards,
Mark

[newsense]

Just booted up two VMs, ssh-ed into the opnsense as installer@IP and was straight in the installation steps.

Likely there you have a BIOS/Keyboard/Serial cocktail of issues that's messing things up one way or another.