@patient0 said in DEC740 Desktop Security Appliance - Cannot proceed with installation of PfSense: @logan5247 said in DEC740 Desktop Security Appliance - Cannot proceed with installation of PfSense: Hey, how is the DEC740 working out for you? Wanted to get an opinion before I drop $800+ on this thing I'm pretty happy with it, I did have to upgrade to pfSense Plus. Have to try to remember why :/ ... I think for the support of the 10G ports. Performance wise I get about 5-6Gbit iperf3 out of it on my Fiber (not PPPoE), no IDS running. I would compare it to a Netgate 6100 MAX (don't go for the eMMC based models) which may give equal or better performance. Thanks for sharing!

This is a FANTASTIC group! I followed directions which was to complete the interface assignments during setup, let my backup install (which was added at time of install) and my 2nd -NEW- box is up and running with 2.7.2 without any apparent issues! I have not swapped out boxes as of yet, but the main idea was to have a redundant box on standby incase of hardware failure etc. THANKS!!

Ah, that's probably just the gui device list lagging the driver. https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/blob/master/src/usr/local/www/includes/functions.inc.php#L340 You could try adding the ID(s) there as a test.

@stephenw10 My system is back-up and running as the main firewall, but I am happy to help in figuring out or gathering any useful information.

Is there anything actually connected to that SATA channel? If not you can probably disable it in the BIOS. Otherwise I'd try this system tunable: https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ahci#SYSCTL Steve

Yup check that the drive(s) are shown in the boot log. Or when it fails like that drop to the command line and check: ls -ls /dev

Yup almost certainly because of old BE snapshots taking up space. You needs more that 1.2G to upgrade into. Remove old BE snaps.

@reaper689 need to put a memstick version on the USB flash drive drive, not the iso. https://atxfiles.netgate.com/mirror/downloads/

@stephenw10 I will have to wait until the end of the semester to test again it malformed the data on the boot environment after also. So, I had to use another one I have multiples of them in case a test failed glad I made some, I am so thankful for boot environments, it failed I was up in 3 mins after I got a term session going again.

2.7.2 is only available CE version from there. There are no public 2.8 dev snaps yet.

Hi All, I just thought I'd respond because I had this "Failed to select the ZFS volume type" issue on install of whitelabel hardware, but was able to resolve it by retrying install with the "Netgate Installer - AMD64 Memstick USB" installer instead of the ISO installer. Hope this helps someone else!

Ah interesting. Good result!

@stephenw10 Got it, thanks. If the GUI sets the branch, and I assume updates some configuration files. Are there a set of files that we can modify via the console, or symbolic links, that can manually set the branch version, so we can then issue pfSense-upgrade -U -d -y

@stephenw10 IIRC the message about the missing /etc/hostid was the last message before the hang (I neglected to make a screenshot).

Just make sure you have a backup of the config and you can always recover.

@rac1503 Sorry for late reply, but thanks to the last iOS update I see emails only just after rebooting the phone. (One may think that email is an anachronistic way of communication compared to modern messengers but it is annoying if it does not work.) However, fine, that you have solved your problem! Regards, Michael

@stephenw10 I see wireguard getting uninstalled in the logs following a reboot after config restore. Once reinstalled and rebooted it does remain installed.

There isn't yet a newer public installer version but it should be available soon. The checksum difference is not a cause for concern IMO. It is curious though.

Does it show the 24.11 branch in the dropdown selection? You have to select it in order to upgrade.

@stephenw10 - I totally agree, but that is what originally pulled me into the thread. I wouldn't bother changing the thread title. I also think that my wear rate is actually slower so I expect the 1.5 year estimate to be more like 3 years. Phizix