Login at Install

[Samantha Beck]

Hello!

I'm having a strange issue that I cannot explain and need some guidance to figure out. I have already set up 3 security onion servers: a master, log, and sensor. I have two other sensors I'm looking to add, and using the same ISO, I am receiving a login prompt when booting into the installation image. When I use the user "securityonion" with no password, it appears to work, but loops back into the login screen.

Since this occurred, I have wiped the previous hardware and downloaded/verified the newest ISO, and tried again. Same issue. Has anyone else run into this? What am I doing wrong?

Thank you.

Sam

[Wes Lambert]

Hi Samantha,

Have you tried switching the boot mode for the machine?  Additionally, have you tried waiting a few seconds to see if the prompt disappears and the machine boots correctly?

Thanks,

Wes

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[A Abs]

Hi
I had the same problem with HP DL 380 (G7) and try too many thing (erasing disk , upgrade firmware , change form BIOS boot to UEFI ) with no success.at the end i move to another hardware.

[Dan Hoyle]

I also had the exact same issue with HP DL 380 G7.  Ubuntu installs with no issue, but SO prompts for password.  I also gave up and switched hardware which had no issues.   

[Doug Burks]

A couple of thoughts here:

1.  It looks like the HP DL 380 G7 is past both End of Life and End of Service Life, so you're probably better off switching to newer hardware anyway.

2.  If you're having trouble installing our ISO on newer hardware but Ubuntu 16.04 installs correctly, then you don't need our ISO at all.  You can add our PPA and install our packages and Docker images directly on Ubuntu 16.04 as documented in the following installation guides on our wiki:

Quickly Evaluating Security Onion using your preferred flavor of Ubuntu 16.04
https://github.com/Security-Onion-Solutions/security-onion/wiki/InstallingOnUbuntu

Production Deployment
https://github.com/Security-Onion-Solutions/security-onion/wiki/ProductionDeployment

Hope that helps!

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[Samantha Beck]

I don't know why I didn't think of that. I was so pre-occupied with the issue that it never crossed my mind to install it to a standard ubuntu server -- of which I'm pretty ashamed. Thank you very much for your response. It worked, it's up and running, and I really, really appreciate it.

Thank you,

Samantha

[ds]

I also stumbled today on the same issue installing securityonion-16.04.5.6 on HP DL 380 G7 (probably true for some other HP servers). The simple fix is to disable radeon driver in kernel boot line like this:

- press tab at grub menu
- add

radeon.modeset=0

to the kernel boot line, after that SO installs just fine. After installation
you have to make the same permanent:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/19486/how-do-i-add-a-kernel-boot-parameter

Hope it helps someone to not lose time on this.