<SOLVED> install stops at Mountroot> and never gets to Login page

[Dill0n]

I finally figured out how to install using .img file from Rufus.... .iso file will not install and hangs earliy on.
The .img file sends a good bit of data to std output but stops (or hangs maybe) with a prompt that says:

mountroot:waiting for device /dev/ufs/opnsense_install ....
Mounting from ufs:/dev//opnsense_install  failed with error 19.

Loader variables:
   vfs.root.mountfrom=/dev/ufs/OPNsense_install
   vfs.root.mountfrom.options-ro,noatime

Manual root filesystem specification:
   <fstype>:<device> {options}
         Mount <device> using filesystem <fstu[e>
         and with the specified (optional) option list.

     eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a
           zfs:zroot/ROOT/default
           cd9660:/dev/cd0 ro
               (which is equivalent to: mount -t cd9660 -o ro /dev/cd0 /)

?                    List valid disk boot devices
.                    Yield 1 second (for background tasks)
<empty line>  Abort manual input

mountroot> 

and thats the end of any installation.. I have looked at the installation docs and think there was a space I was supposed to press  "any key" but never saw any mention of that in the text scrolling over the screen ..
looking back at the above its obvious it wanted something in the way of input but it never stopped for me to enter anything hence the error 19 I guess. 

Any suggestions would be appreciated or even point me to documents that tell where I screwed up etc..
FWIW I have read a fair amount of the doc files and even watched several videos on Al Gores internet (mainly Youtube) and all of them get to a login prompt and then proceed after entering user and pass..  and I never see any hint of a user pass


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[EricPerl]

That looks like a manual prompt asking you to indicate where to install, likely because of existing content on the SSD/HDD, or because the install process can't find a SSD/HDD.

? should get you a list of options.
Do a search for : mountroot failed with error 19
It will yield a list of relevant FreeBSD forum posts like this one:
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/mounting-from-ufs-dev-ad0s1a-failed-with-error-19.57135/

[Dill0n]

thanks Eric.. I thought I had done that but it was late last night and I might have been mistaken.. I will search for the error 19 and see what that does

[Dill0n]

EricPerl
just thought I would let you know.  I did find out why I was stopping at "mountroot' prompt
Turns out somehow I was getting a corrupt file transfered to my harddisk that was running Rufus..  finally got the darn .iso image to mount on a thumb drive with Rufus and it worked fine..  now I need to figure out where I go from the login prompt.. thanks for the support
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[Patrick M. Hausen]

Login as user "installer" with password "opnsense" to install to the hard disk.

You should not have written directly to that, anyway. It's like a windows installation - boot from external media and install the OS.

Pick ZFS, it's far superior to UFS.