Installing embedded pfsense, stuck at boot loader

Solution 1:

That's where it switches to the serial console, that's normal. Plug up your serial console and it will continue from there.

Also you shouldn't be using that old release, get 1.2.3 release at a minimum, and 2.0 is preferred at this point.

Solution 2:

If you have a boot loader problem it's essential to provide full information about system's internals:

1. Platform (i386, ia64, powerpc etc)
2. Hardware, especially motherboard
3. BIOS/EFI version
4. GPT/MBR?
5. Filesystem in use (Of cause one can google about "pfsense image", download it and search for ufs/zfs, but it would be easier if you just provided this information)