Yes, you need to reinstall to get the UEFI boot slice and GPT loader scheme.

Steve

This I assume?: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=236716

That looks like bits vs bytes error to me. Are those screenshots still what you see? The links above have expired.

Probably need an update to 3.8 though as suggested there.

Steve

Yes

Are you setting a very large subnet mask when configuring it as static? The ISP should have provided that information to you.

SOLVED

FreeBSD does not read the hardware clock correctly from the Odroid H2. This causes all sorts of weird problems.

johnsond in the Odroid forum tested the board and found a solution, all of which he described in this post: https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?t=33911#p261986

Go to System > Advanced > System Tunables. Add New Tunable Name: kern.timecounter.hardware Value: ACPI-fast Description: TSC-low doesn't work on Odroid-H2

I've testing this on two Odroid H2s. After rebooting, the boards were able to sync with NTP, the time was displayed correctly, and pfSense could contact its repository.

It doesn't function at all, but we're working on it. There isn't any dedicated public page or for tracking that, but we'll likely mention it somewhere (development board here, r/pfSense on Reddit, etc) when it's available for testing.

https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/9840

FYI for anyone that is interested, I swapped the nics did a clean install and then restored a backup

The Mini PC has no COM port?
If it has one you may connect the devices by a null modem and use the console for installing pfSense.
Otherwise there will be no easy way.

Please use the installation guidance give on this link: https://protectli.com/kb/how-to-install-pfsense-ce-2-4-on-the-vault-2/

Try to thinking this way: just buy used on eBay IBM-branded RAID card (or LSI, Dell, Adaptec, MSI, SiliconImage), better PCI-X 2 or 2.1, install two HDD (I suggest bullet-proof Ultrastar 7K3000 3TB 3.5-INCH ENTERPRISE HARD DRIVE SATA model HUA723030ALA640), configure to mirror and sleep well another 5 years. :)

You cannot write exactly where failure happened (in appliance or desktop), so I decide that You have desktop system.

Better to spend $50 on card and sleep well 5 years rather spending hours with failed drive and dancing around ZFS.

@Raffi_ awesome, thanks for the info. I will most likely make the switch this weekend and update when complete. Thank you both for your time and info 😁

The upgrade process doesn't care or do anything special depending on the filesystem.

Honestly it would be faster and safer to just grab a backup and run the installer again to setup the mirror like you want. You'd be done in <10m with no worries about if you did something wrong.

Thanks, but I used our internal relay now.

Yup, that looks correct. Glad that solved it for you.

Steve

Ok, I see you have the LAN interface of your 'homelab router' at 10.0.0.X, what is the mask? /24?
You mentioned that on PFSense WAN, you gave it an ip in 10.0.0.x (/24??). That sounds OK. I keep wondering about the mask though, as you set PFSense LAN interface 10.1.0.X but if both aren't at least /16 you would have an address conflict, the network address needs to be something other than the 'homelab router' LAN network.
How did you set the PFSense IPs, directly at the PFSense console (opening the VM directly in ESXI)? I would go back to PFSense in the ESXI console and confirm that you have 'Assigned Interfaces' correctly. Check that the VMNIC for the PFSense LAN is listed in the VM NETWORK where the VM resides and it corresponds to the correct physical NIC, and that the WAN VMNIC corresponds to the physical NIC that is connected to your home router. I had run PFSense briefly in ESXI 5 years ago when I was testing it out and making sure the right physical NICs are assigned to the WAN/LAN would be where I would start. Once you are sure of that, and that the LAN side has the correct IP and subnet mask, you should be able to reach the webgui.

Problem solved. You need to set "Westmere" or "kvm64" CPU type instead of host passthrough in libvirt/virsh/kvm/qemu configuration file "virsh edit $vmname"

<cpu mode='custom' match='exact' check='none'>
<model fallback='allow'>Westmere</model>
<topology sockets='1' cores='6' threads='2'/>
</cpu>

Kobus,
Please let us know how you are doing with configuring your pair of Dell PCs as an HA pair. I have a pair of HP 8300 small form factor PCs that I might want to set up as HA. I haven't looked into it at all until I saw your post. Good luck with the project!
Greg