I booted the system with logging turned on from CD and the system seemed to hang when trying enumerate UART3.
Wait, there are only two com ports on the outside of the case! I rebooted to the BIOS and found BIOS setting for Com ports 1 through 4. i disabled Com Ports 3 & 4 in the BIOS and all is now well and I have a working pfSense box. Lyle Giese LCR Computer Services, Inc. Lyle Giese wrote: > Gerald A wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Lyle Giese <[email protected] >> <mailto:[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 > From the HD, yes, never get past the spinner. It appears to hit only > one or two changes and locks up. > > Booting from the ISO in a USB CDRom, only safe mode boots(options 1 & > 2 lockup). > > Lyle >
