@stephenw10 yes I have a good system time and date it might diff a few seconds, but that is it.

More ideas?

Is it possible to download an older image 2.6.x or 2.7.x just to verify if I get a different behaivour?

@stephenw10 yes real hardware, bare metal on a Dell R510

@stephenw10
Thanks for the guidance Stephen. I’ll give that a try.

Hmm, and that's repeatable after every reboot?

And does it initially show an error in the dashboard widget for updates?

Did you try installing FreeBSD 15 to check for some upstream issue?

Indeed, where is it failing for you? What hardware are you running on?

Yup a clean install and restore will always work. Having that prepared and available is always a good idea.

@Finger79 I reinstall from scratch using 2.8 after disabling WIFI in the BIOS. Hopefully the bug is fixed in the near future.

Yup that^. Enable the CE repos in the first install step.

Or if you send me your NDI in chat I can remove it from the list. That would be permanent though.

@Finger79 said in Is GELI FDE option not part of the Netgate Installer 1.0RC?:

Hope that helps. But yeah, in the future I'll also have more VPNs set up, and I'd like those private keys protected.

In a business or enterprise environment, there is much more robust physical security. In a residential setting with people who help themselves to my personal belongings (and then lie about it), my trust can't be that high, so I have to control the things within my control until I can move out to safer pastures.

OK, I understand. 👍 Sorry!

You
Are
A
F*****
LEGEND !

Ah, OK. It doesn't expose the boot partition via GEOM. That's why the script shows it can't find it.

OK lets see what we can do here....

I had the same issue with pfsense 2.7.0 not seeing any updates to 2.7.2 even if i double check the base version etc...

certificate rehash and update from shell seems to work.

i also had the bad gateway error, and the only workaround is to restart the system or reload web config from console.

@patient0

perfect, thanks so much, up and running with 2.8!

@stephenw10 thanks a lot. my pfsense is now pinging quad9 and now everything is working. 👍🏻

@Finger79 said in Error using the Netgate installer on a new install on an HP t740 thin client PC [Solved - Intel WLAN]:

FreeBSD doesn't like HP eMMC storage is outdated

Make sure that you check the eMMC health regularly (pfSense: Troubleshooting Disk Lifetime: eMMC).

ZFS does write a lot more and there are a few threads here about Netgate devices with eMMC that failed quite early. UFS is better in that regard.

How-to for reducing disk writes pfSense: Troubleshooting Disk Writes.