pfSense 2.2.4 Install Problems

pfSense 2.2.4 Install Problems

When installing from Live CD I ran across the following problems
One of my PC’s gave me a “Root mount waiting for: GRAID” message. It would later fail when trying to write the install to the hard disk. To get by this I followed the pfSense site for: (BTW it did not have a fake raid card. It was the onboard SATA ports not in RAID mode)

"Fake" RAID cards with a GRAID error

Certain "fake" RAID cards, driver/software-based RAID adapters that are not true hardware RAID, may fail to mount properly with the following error: 

Root mount waiting for: GRAID
mountroot>

Another symptom can be that "Intel RAID" messages are shown during the boot sequence, and typing ? at the mountroot prompt it only shows the drive itself and no partitions: 

Mounting from ufs:/dev/ada0s1a failed with error 19
mountroot> ?
[...]
ada0

•    Escape to a loader prompt during bootup and run: 

set kern.geom.raid.enable="0"
boot

•    After a successful install/boot, add that settings permanently to /boot/loader.conf.local: 

kern.geom.raid.enable="0"


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On another PC I would get a mountroot error message while booting off the live CD on a USB attached CD rom.

Booting from USB

•    If the boot stops with a mountroot error while booting off the live CD, usually with USB CD/DVD drives, escape to the loader prompt and run the following: 

 set kern.cam.boot_delay="10000"
 boot

•    On 2.0 this is on the boot menu - option #3 to boot from USB devices.
At which point the boot will continue normally and a normal installation will be possible.
If running permanently from a medium that requires this delay, edit /boot/loader.conf.local and insert the following line: 

kern.cam.boot_delay="10000"

•    If booting fails from a USB 3.0 port and the above does not help, try a USB 2.0 port with the same delay settings.

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