Fixing the "Segmentation Fault" error when installing OPNsense on the HP T620 Plus Jul 05, 2019

I have gotten a HP T620 Plus as a firewall box, replacing a Chinese “Mini PC” which barely handles my 300/300 Verizon FiOS. The T620 Plus is a very popular choice in the pfSense world, however I wanted to go with OPNsense.

One issue with the T620 Plus with OPNsense is that when you attempt to install, you get a segmentation fault in the installer. From forum posts, many other people have had this issue with HP and non-HP hardware.

The issue is that the OPNsense installer uses a client/server setup that doesn’t play well with the full-screen UEFI console, and OPNsense doesn’t boot on the T620 Plus in BIOS mode because HP’s UEFI doesn’t want to boot BIOS from GPT disks.

To fix this issue of segfaults from the installer, you need to boot in UEFI mode from the USB containing OPNsense. When you are at the OPNsense loader screen (with the countdown), press Esc .

When you are at the loader prompt starting with OK , type the following:

set gop 0

And press enter. The screen should go blank. When it does, type in the following to boot (even if there is no output):

boot

And press rnter. After the above step, you should get a (lower-resolution) console that doesn’t bug out with OPNsense’s installer. Then you should be able to install OPNsense normally.