Usually that's because you are not running ZFS so the boot environments are not applicable. It's not an issue if you are running UFS, you can safely ignore it. Steve

@stephenw10 Dang bifocals…..

When the installer fails it will drop you at a prompt but the network settings will still be in place. You can try to ping (or do any other tests) from there.

Could be a switch issue on the 3100. Try running at the command line: etherswitchcfg That should return the switch config but if there are errors I would try re-flashing it.

@planedrop said in Community Edition will be renewed or cancelled ?: it's not meant for production use cases. That's completely new to me, where are you got this information?

Hmm, do you have anything smaller? Anything that's USB2? When you see that EHCI time out error you should do a full power cycle before testing anything else.

@stephenw10 Yup. I figure out the problem once I got into the console. When I tried to access the tools menu, I received a fatal error telling me that there was not enough room to create a lock file. Deleted one of the BE files and I was off to the races.

Looks like the output you see when the primary console is set to the other one: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/troubleshooting/boot-issues.html#booting-with-an-alternate-console

For reference in the Beta7 installer you can enable the CE repos for install even if your instance is eligible for Plus.

@stephenw10 Thank you! I struggled to reassign the LAN interface. I was told that I could not set it to a 192.168.2.1/24 subdomain. I thought I had taken notes of that episode, but I can't seem to find them. It would not surprise me if I was mistyping something (I'm not dyslexic, but I sure seem to be when it comes to correctly choosing "LAN" or "WAN"). However, after re-reading the link you provided I was able to set the LAN interface to None, which allowed installation to proceed. Thank you for your assistance! I have a new struggle getting my legacy settings installed, but I want to wrestle with that a bit more before returning here.

To close the loop on this. I saw in the Netgate hardware discussions where an M.2 2242 SSD with B+M keys can work in the 2100. https://forum.netgate.com/topic/184700/m-2-sata-ssd-128gb?_=1722035654829

@johnpoz Thanks. I'll start down that road and see how it goes...

This was very helpful. Thank you.

@stephenw10 Thank you. I see your point regarding the ticket, I reviewed the information requested, it is the way to go, so thank you, if t this file will not work I will follow through.

@stephenw10 , I have removed few more and now have 1.8G available. I think it should be fine now. Thanks again for your guidance.

@stephenw10 i try on Edge/chrome and Firefox (inprivate and normally) nothings happends. thanks, i send you NDI on chat

I assume if you just install and boot from an SSD it does boot OK? Does that system claim to support NVMe drives? I don't see it in the specs. You should, technically, be able to boot a bootloader from SSD and then boot from NVMe if it can see that. That combination is not something I've tried though.

No I didn't. Everything is back to normal (and understood ;) but I will have a look. Thanks,

Yeah I would open a ticket about that. It should recognise the 7100 and setup the switch and VLANs etc so you can connect out on the default interfaces. If that's not happening then it isn't recognising the hardware for some reason. That might mean the data passed by the bios is incorrect. Also important to note is that coming from a pfSense version that old probably means it has an old Coreboot version and that will need to be updated. That must be done in an older pfSense version, 23.05.1 or earlier. Steve