Having problem installing the installer is not working

[saki22]

I was trying to reinstall it from a fresh copy when I hit enter on a install ufs it just sat there did not change screen

[franco]

No movement at all possible? Have you tried CTRL+C?


Cheers,
Franco

[saki22]

No I have not I'll go give that a try

[saki22]

I have tried to control c I restarted the install but did not fix the problem

[franco]

And other menus aren't working either? What sort of console are you using? VM, Hardware?


Cheers,
Franco

[saki22]

Vga setup

[franco]

But is this a VGA setup or serial. You could also try the SSH installer.


Cheers,
Franco

[saki22]

VGA Setup

[franco]

It's likely waiting during disk probe, but it's really difficult to avoid that since we use standard tools to read disk information and the disk is not responding?


Cheers,
Franco

[saki22]

I got a question why does this problem pop up it was not doing this on the last version of opnsense

[franco]

The installer was rewritten for 21.7.


Cheers,
Franco

[saki22]

Okay

[franco]

As I said it's probably the disk probe hanging waiting for a system reply:

https://github.com/opnsense/installer/blob/ed87f04371376b75635d0832573879c3341b3e32/src/opnsense.subr.sh#L35-L80

Intentionally it only uses utilities from the operating system to get disk information...


Cheers,
Franco

[saki22]

Okay I understand is there a workaround for this kind of issue

[cookiemonster]

can you boot with a live system on usb for example to diagnose the disks?