Hello there,
I succesfully have installed pfSense on an MSI 785GM-E51 with an AMD Phenom II X3 B73 on a 16GB P-ATA DOM.
Using that configuration I only had one drawback while Installing which I could solve putting "kern.geom.raid.enable=0" into the boot-configuration. It seems like that the integrated Promise-RAID-functionality of the onboard-controller is detected in FreeBSD and activated whether the controller is set in BIOS as IDE or AHCI so I had to resort to this workaround which works perfect for me.
After having accomplished that I wanted to continue and install FreeNAS on antoher system and I run into the same problem. While booting works nicely from the install-usb-stick it suddenly waits for "GRAID-Intel" and after a timeout it just continues leaving the drive inaccessible. The same also happens when instead of using the SSD I use the DOM from the other system.
The hardware I want to use for that is
- MSI 890FXA-GD70
- AMD Phenom II X6 1100T
- 32GB GeiL Evo Leggera 1333
- OCZ Petrol 128GB
- 5 MediaMax WL1500GSA6472B (not yet attached)
I tried inserting the afore mentioned parameter into the boot-option when hitting "e" after GRUB starts loading but with no success. The error still persists. I've had a long talk with Mr. Google and found some threads with similar problems but mostly they were related to aftermarket RAID-controllers that could be demounted but that doesn't work for me. Also I found some solutions where the drives were fixed after having been RAID-drives but that SSD only was a single drive in an X79-system and was never used in a RAID-configurstion. So I'm looking for a similar workaround like with pfSense since I don't want to use a USB-stick. I first thought of maybe initially installing it on another USB-stick and then cloning that stick to the ssd after editing the boot-configuration as mentioned above but I'm not really sure if that even would work since I'm very new to FreeBSD and yet have much to learn.
For now I would be glad if there was a workaround like with pfSense that I could use for the time being.
Thanks in advance and thank you very muchs for your patience.
Greeings
Jinxxter
Update:
I took the time and went with HEX-editing the drive and it seems like there was RAID-information stored somehow.
I wiped the whole disk with zeros and now it installed just fine.
I succesfully have installed pfSense on an MSI 785GM-E51 with an AMD Phenom II X3 B73 on a 16GB P-ATA DOM.
Using that configuration I only had one drawback while Installing which I could solve putting "kern.geom.raid.enable=0" into the boot-configuration. It seems like that the integrated Promise-RAID-functionality of the onboard-controller is detected in FreeBSD and activated whether the controller is set in BIOS as IDE or AHCI so I had to resort to this workaround which works perfect for me.
After having accomplished that I wanted to continue and install FreeNAS on antoher system and I run into the same problem. While booting works nicely from the install-usb-stick it suddenly waits for "GRAID-Intel" and after a timeout it just continues leaving the drive inaccessible. The same also happens when instead of using the SSD I use the DOM from the other system.
The hardware I want to use for that is
- MSI 890FXA-GD70
- AMD Phenom II X6 1100T
- 32GB GeiL Evo Leggera 1333
- OCZ Petrol 128GB
- 5 MediaMax WL1500GSA6472B (not yet attached)
I tried inserting the afore mentioned parameter into the boot-option when hitting "e" after GRUB starts loading but with no success. The error still persists. I've had a long talk with Mr. Google and found some threads with similar problems but mostly they were related to aftermarket RAID-controllers that could be demounted but that doesn't work for me. Also I found some solutions where the drives were fixed after having been RAID-drives but that SSD only was a single drive in an X79-system and was never used in a RAID-configurstion. So I'm looking for a similar workaround like with pfSense since I don't want to use a USB-stick. I first thought of maybe initially installing it on another USB-stick and then cloning that stick to the ssd after editing the boot-configuration as mentioned above but I'm not really sure if that even would work since I'm very new to FreeBSD and yet have much to learn.
For now I would be glad if there was a workaround like with pfSense that I could use for the time being.
Thanks in advance and thank you very muchs for your patience.
Greeings
Jinxxter
Update:
I took the time and went with HEX-editing the drive and it seems like there was RAID-information stored somehow.
I wiped the whole disk with zeros and now it installed just fine.
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