Hi, On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Lyle Giese <[email protected]> wrote:
> I downloaded the 8/7/10 snapshot of pfSense Beta4 cdrom LiveCD(i386). > Can only boot using SafeMode. Normal and no ACPI (options 1&2) lockup > the machine during the boot process. > > I tried installing pfSense from safe mode cd rom boot and it fails to > load from the HD. Get the following on the screen: > > F1 pfSense > > F6 PXE > boot: F1 > (spinner starts and immediately locks) > > Unit is locked at this point. > Any suggestions would be most welcome. > You never get past the spinner? If I remember correctly, the spinner is simply loading the Forth(sp?) loader, which will then actually load the OS. My first suspicion would be that you have corrupt media of some sort -- perhaps try another CD (and double check the MD5's on your downloaded files to make sure there was no in-transit corruption). The loader is pretty generic since it doesn't know anything about your machine yet. After the loader comes the boot probes, but those will print out what is detected, so you would know where it is hanging. Hope this helps, Gerald
