Dealing with pfsense

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Posted by troboy, 11-07-2010, 10:31 AM
Hi I am going to use pfsense as a firewall in our office. So while testing on VMware workstation, it worked fine (rock n roll) without any error But while installing in actual physical machine it is showing error : I burned on another CD with 4x speed, I changed my DVD ROM of physical machine , I also changed burner but nothing good is happening. I have pfsense live cd and while loading files (not installing) it shows that error. Pfsense is based on freebsd. I googled but no solution, I am getting frustrated , its size is just 55MB, I tried installing with USB-HDD and Pen Drivers but same problem. I have attached a snap of monitor I need help over here. Attached Thumbnails
Posted by troboy, 11-07-2010, 10:47 AM
Sorry admins, but I am writing this as I think it is really Important On VMware, I gave only 1 core and 1 thread, So it worked fine. But on that expected pfsense physical machine, Intel Pentium 4 3.0Ghz Prescott (1 core, 2 thread) is hooked So thats the problem I went to VMware and gave 1CPU and 2 threads (Im using AMD Ph 2 X6) and started pfsense and it gave the SAME ERROR So pfsense dont support multi core/thread system Now what to do ?
Posted by cbuechler, 11-07-2010, 04:07 PM
That's not true in the least, lots of multi-core installs out there. I have several in VMware, and countless on physical servers with up to 32 cores on very large scale installs. The only time I've seen mountroot on the CD fail is with some USB CD-ROMs that don't initialize fast enough, which just requires adding a delay. That and other boot issues described on a page I can't link as I don't have enough posts, but Google boot troubleshooting site:doc.pfsense.org and you'll find it. Never heard of that or seen that with VMware though, and we do most of our dev work in VMware commonly with SMP.
Posted by troboy, 11-08-2010, 09:45 AM
Hey, thank you very much Last edited by troboy; 11-08-2010 at 09:50 AM.