Give this a go: [image: MPOA-Settings.png]

Worst case take a Backup and clean reinstall 2.4.4-p3 with the Recover config.xml Option: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/backup/automatically-restore-during-install.html -Rico

@jimp said in Installing pfSense on Mirrowed ZFS: The installer can setup a proper ZFS mirror for you, no need to run commands like that. Thank you Jim for responding...that's great news as I had spent lots of time trying to understand the pool and been a little worried.

I was able to solve it, I had to format the entire disk so that it accepts pfsense without problems, and that it does not accept another OS. Thank you very much for your quick response.

3rd Gen i5 Asrock z77 professional-m 8GB ram 2x Intel quad port NICs 1x Intel Dual port 10Gbe copper 2 mechanical 320gb hdd

Thanks for your reply. But it seems the issue was related to BIOS and enabled secure boot ON https://itsfoss.com/no-bootable-device-found-ubuntu/

@Gertjan Thanks. Although I didn't read your reply in time - and upgraded to 2.5.0 : It's my home router/firewall; so I only have a potentially angry wife and some angry kids : Edit (and totally off-topic): I am very pleased to see that my host overrides work again - now I am running 2.5.0 :

Switched back to 2.5.0-DEVELOPMENT version as client DNS issue soon reappeared on 2.4.4_3.

Glad it worked out without too much grief.. Great learning experience for sure! I use to run a proxy in the house back in the day when had 2 teenage boys to filter p0rn from.. But no reason for it any more, and internet is a different place - not like its saving you much bandwidth, etc. And now that on unlimited high speed connections, etc. as well..

Huh? There is not really much difference to the CE. -Rico

@Gertjan dead like this [image: 1558613004673-deadpfsense.png] so only the shell option was working...basically the same issue as the begining

Yes, but you can get detailed information for reinstalling the XG-7100 here: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/solutions/xg-7100/reinstall-pfsense.html -Rico

@Gertjan Really wish I could, we have some legacy IPMI gear that can only send alerts in the clear to smtp, they support authentication but not SSL or TLS so it limits us configuring them to send directly to our external mail server, we need a service to capture them internally and them securely forward them externally.

I restored a couple more times and the VLANs worked after reassigning the NICs. I don't know what went wrong during the first restores, but it finally works on the last one.

@Rico yes, thank you.

Thanks.

You could download an upgrade image for 2.3 if you can find one, and upgrade to that offline, but that only gets you to 2.3. There isn't a way to live upgrade from 2.3 to 2.4.x offline. Reinstalling would be much faster and easier.

A clean reinstall with 'Recover config.xml' option is probably the fastest way: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/backup/automatically-restore-during-install.html Before the reinstall take a Backup first just in case... -Rico

Hello, Sorry for this late response as a student and I'm not always at work. Thank you very much for your help because that's exactly what I was looking for.