@Rico ok when i do it with the gzip image file it works . maybe I'm not getting something here shouldn't the extracted one match as well???

nope. its 20 dollars with cable in denmark.. so i solved it in a funnier way.. what i did was: create USB with version 2.5 plugin keyboard 4-8 times enter untill the harddrive lights flashs red alot. ( installing ) waited for about 5 min then 2 times enter, to get out out the install process https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/install/installing-pfsense.html and pulled the usb stick out. reboot... The diskLED is flashing red, and the familiar boot sound from the board then the funny part.. the auto configuration of the LAN 3 enter 3 enter And then test the GUI, and it works. Im in. changes the setup to: WAN re1 LAN re2 and turns on telnet/SSH reboot. SUPER.. no need for serial cable issues..

Who would have known to press the space bar to select the drives? All is good now.

Give this a go: [image: MPOA-Settings.png]

Worst case take a Backup and clean reinstall 2.4.4-p3 with the Recover config.xml Option: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/backup/automatically-restore-during-install.html -Rico

@jimp said in Installing pfSense on Mirrowed ZFS: The installer can setup a proper ZFS mirror for you, no need to run commands like that. Thank you Jim for responding...that's great news as I had spent lots of time trying to understand the pool and been a little worried.

I was able to solve it, I had to format the entire disk so that it accepts pfsense without problems, and that it does not accept another OS. Thank you very much for your quick response.

3rd Gen i5 Asrock z77 professional-m 8GB ram 2x Intel quad port NICs 1x Intel Dual port 10Gbe copper 2 mechanical 320gb hdd

Thanks for your reply. But it seems the issue was related to BIOS and enabled secure boot ON https://itsfoss.com/no-bootable-device-found-ubuntu/

@Gertjan Thanks. Although I didn't read your reply in time - and upgraded to 2.5.0 : It's my home router/firewall; so I only have a potentially angry wife and some angry kids : Edit (and totally off-topic): I am very pleased to see that my host overrides work again - now I am running 2.5.0 :

Switched back to 2.5.0-DEVELOPMENT version as client DNS issue soon reappeared on 2.4.4_3.

Glad it worked out without too much grief.. Great learning experience for sure! I use to run a proxy in the house back in the day when had 2 teenage boys to filter p0rn from.. But no reason for it any more, and internet is a different place - not like its saving you much bandwidth, etc. And now that on unlimited high speed connections, etc. as well..

Huh? There is not really much difference to the CE. -Rico

@Gertjan dead like this [image: 1558613004673-deadpfsense.png] so only the shell option was working...basically the same issue as the begining

Yes, but you can get detailed information for reinstalling the XG-7100 here: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/solutions/xg-7100/reinstall-pfsense.html -Rico

@Gertjan Really wish I could, we have some legacy IPMI gear that can only send alerts in the clear to smtp, they support authentication but not SSL or TLS so it limits us configuring them to send directly to our external mail server, we need a service to capture them internally and them securely forward them externally.

I restored a couple more times and the VLANs worked after reassigning the NICs. I don't know what went wrong during the first restores, but it finally works on the last one.

@Rico yes, thank you.

Thanks.