Well, I finally got forced into this when my system would not respond to http://192.169.1.1 . I decided to install Fedora on the drives. And then install 2.8.1. Well that worked out until something got weird with TAC, and it seems it doesn't understand that I'm running the Community Edition. BUT I have been battling this off and on since about 9AM this morning and finally it is working at 10:39 PM US Eastern. I've had all the fun I can handle for today. But thought I'd report in once I got this done. Tchuess.

@stephenw10 Yes I have "Prefer IPv4 over IPv6" checked on the Advanced / networking page.

It's a problem with the igc1 NIC in the MS01 specifically. By default it runs some remote management on that NIC that prevents DHCP working. https://forum.netgate.com/topic/188141/cannot-get-dhcp-functioning-on-2nd-interface

The 1100 is a great box (I have two) but painfully short on resources and even for service that's supposedly well within its capabilities, it seems to slow the service down. I bought a 4200 for the same use case I bought the 1100s for, and it's superior in every way. I put the 1100s on a shelf as a spare and dev unit and run the 4200 in production. It's worth considering.

@SteveITS said in Netgate 2100 failed upgrade 25.07 to 25.11: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/troubleshooting/filesystem-shrink.html Thank you! After removing old boot environments, I freed up 40% of the disk. Upgrade worked, currently on 25.11 appreciate your help.

Thanks a lot for all the efforts to help me - I appreciate this a lot. I decided to reinstall .... my data is required for downloading PLUS no-offline installation is possible - Really! Sorry, but this is the point where you lost me, switching to OPNSense.

Yup the 1100 has the least RAM of any Netgate device so is most likely to hit this.

Nice. Thanks for the update.

Hmm, that should never happen. What image are you using on the USB drive? At the Marvell>> prompt try running printenv. Make sure it shows a serial line and that it matches the value on the label.

Can you try to boot the other kernel to get the actual error? Or try to boot the Net Installer to see if that also generates an error?

I don't see one open. You can create one here: https://redmine.pfsense.org/projects/pfsense/issues

Thanks will contact Netgate

Yup, it's fixed in internal 1.2 builds. It also has other fixes, hopefully we can get that out very soon.

We can close here. Reinstalled, works. thanks a lot @stephenw10 for your patience :-)

@rpsmith As someone not likely to ever make the jump away from CE unless and until the so-called Netgate Installer stops booting on whitebox hardware—even then it'd be hard to pass on Plus for $129/year now. I only grow more regretful with each new release having not snagged a license for free. You'd be moving to an inferior and more expensive product, for an irrational reason. Doesn't OPNsense cost more than that just to achieve a comparable (though still unequivalent) feature set?