I started this thread in the pfsense forum (original thread) but was redirected here (the problem are identical with "vanilla" freeBSD 11.2).
In short:
When we try to install pfsense 2.4.3 or freeBSD 11.2 on our server it stops after it has loaded the Megaraid lsi driver.
We have configured the raid card with 1 virtual drive and the installer finds the drive as seen when first booting and listing attached drives (and so does linux and eg freedos).
However when starting the install the kernel tries to load the megaraid driver and then it "hangs". I suspect (without knowing) this is becasue the driver tries to "take over" the raid card for some reason.
We have tried to disable the megaraid "module" but it seams to built into the kernel and whatever command we tried to disable the driver have failed.
In short I have two questions, can we disable the driver with the current build of the installer or do we need to rebuild the kernel (without support for the megaraid driver ?
And related why is this driver necessary at all as the disks will present themselves as "bios" disks, ie if we do not load the driver will the install not detect the virtual disk at all?
Best regards
Jonas
In short:
When we try to install pfsense 2.4.3 or freeBSD 11.2 on our server it stops after it has loaded the Megaraid lsi driver.
We have configured the raid card with 1 virtual drive and the installer finds the drive as seen when first booting and listing attached drives (and so does linux and eg freedos).
However when starting the install the kernel tries to load the megaraid driver and then it "hangs". I suspect (without knowing) this is becasue the driver tries to "take over" the raid card for some reason.
We have tried to disable the megaraid "module" but it seams to built into the kernel and whatever command we tried to disable the driver have failed.
In short I have two questions, can we disable the driver with the current build of the installer or do we need to rebuild the kernel (without support for the megaraid driver ?
And related why is this driver necessary at all as the disks will present themselves as "bios" disks, ie if we do not load the driver will the install not detect the virtual disk at all?
Best regards
Jonas