Install hang on a Thecus 5200 PRO

leenooks

leenooks

Hi, I'm another new person to FreeBSD (have been a linux user for over 18 years) and I've been drawn to FreeBSD because of a few projects (pfSense, FreeNAS).

So, I've successfully installed my own FreeBSD virtual machine, setup PXE boot and also enabled console installations - which all work very well with my virtual machines.

I'm now trying to install FreeBSD on my thecus (I want to use ZFS), and I cant get past the boot process (where the same boot/install process works fine on my virtual machine installs). The Thecus only has a serial console, and I can successfully PXE boot, press the initial enter to start the boot (for the install), and it gets to:

Code: 
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
atkbd0: [ITHREAD]
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1496650305 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
hptrr0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
hptrr0: [ITHREAD]
md0: Preloaded image </boot/mfsroot> 4423680 bytes at 0xc0f6dfe0
usbus0: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0
usbus1: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0
usbus2: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0
usbus3: 480Mbps High Speed USB v2.0

And just sits there doing nothing (I'm connected via the serial console).

I've tried many different install approaches, PXE boot+serial, USB using unetbootin (however got no output on the serial port), Using the FREENAS 7.1 embedded image on the USB key and on another hard drive, and if I do get any output, it stops around the same location.

Yes, I'm using the i386 (not 64bit), and I've tried FreeBSD 8.0 and FreeNAS 7.1 images.

Unfortunately, I can successfully get a Linux machine going (with a serial console), but I want to give FreeBSD a go - for ZFS :)

I don't know enough about FreeBSD to know what it is doing next, and what could be the problem, any tips would be appreciated.

...deon
 
I've run into the exact same problem with the same Thecus devices. If anyone has a solution it would be greatly appreciated, I think this box would make a better UTM than it does a NAS.
 
Don't you have to tell it to use the serial console? There was just a post on one of the mailing lists... but I don't recall which. Maybe add -D to /boot.config?
 
I'm using USB keyboard + VGA method and it still hangs in the exact same spot.

I should mention that I'm trying to install pfSense-memstick-2.1-RELEASE-i386-20130911-1815 which is the latest available at the moment.
 
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