The SSDs are usually mounted in brackets. The power and SATA cables can be a bit tight if the riser card is present.

1537-sata.jpg

@stephenw10 I discovered I was connecting console too late after boot. Left it connected and restarted. Was able to interrupt boot to the Marvell prompt. I'll try USB recovery next.

Thanks,

M

There are some things you can see from uboot. Firstly that at boot it reports:

Model: Silicom Rogue-2 CPU 1200 [MHz] L2 800 [MHz] TClock 200 [MHz] DDR 750 [MHz] DRAM: 3.4 GiB

You can check the board info:

Marvell>> bdinfo arch_number = 0x00000000 boot_params = 0x00000100 DRAM bank = 0x00000000 -> start = 0x00000000 -> size = 0x04000000 DRAM bank = 0x00000001 -> start = 0x05400000 -> size = 0x7AC00000 DRAM bank = 0x00000002 -> start = 0x80000000 -> size = 0x40000000 DRAM bank = 0x00000003 -> start = 0xC0000000 -> size = 0x10000000 DRAM bank = 0x00000004 -> start = 0xE0000000 -> size = 0x08000000 baudrate = 115200 bps TLB addr = 0x7FFF0000 relocaddr = 0x7FF36000 reloc off = 0x7FF36000 irq_sp = 0x7F623350 sp start = 0x7F623350 Early malloc usage: 228 / 2000 fdt_blob = 000000007f623360

And adding up those sizes gives 0xD6C00000 = 3602907136 = 3.6GB = 3.35GiB

It's front to back. So from the IO panel to the Power Supply.

@Diane9K I agree with you, the information was helpful

@stephenw10 ended up factory resetting and rebuilding from scratch. Had to do factory reset it twice, but the behavior is now gone. Thank you.

Mind giving some of comments upvotes? I am running into another issue which I am attempting to create another post on in a different section of the forum, but I am hitting the spam blocker.

I also purchased a heat sink for my SG2100MAX, I do not think it needed it but it helps keep it cool.

Looks like the same vendor except mine is the 2242 M.1
IMG_0095.jpeg

I also got one for my pcie mini wireless card.
Screenshot 2024-01-20 at 00.12.40.jpeg

My SG2100 uses passive cooling. With the minipcie wireless card and the SSD the heatsinks can go a long way to help in the California summer heat waves. We will see this summer.

The same 2100 cpu is in the Raspberry PI and it will use CPU throttling if it gets to 80C.

I am also going to add a heat sink on the memory and the cpu next week.

I just went through the same upgrade (my SG-1000 was a rock for the ~7 years I had it in use) and found this thread very helpful. After a few attempts, I was able to get a working xml that imported everything correctly into the SG-1100.

I had a bunch of vlans with opt interfaces that needed to be re-mapped into the internal switch. I started by booting the SG-1100 and exporting the default config to look at side-by-side with my SG-1000 config.

I decided to keep my interface mappings of <opt#> to vlan consistent, so I re-mapped the builtin OPT port on the SG-1100 (<if>mvneta0.4092</if>) to <opt0> in my xml file. Since the SG-1000 doesn't have this port, my initial conversion process left it unused In the <interfaces> and <vlan> sections, I merged the SG-1100 defaults with my custom interfaces/vlans for the custom interfaces, I changed all the <if> tags from cpsw* to mvneta* but kept the subinterface numbers the same for the vlans, I updated the interface names to match what the resulting data interface data I also had to copy the <switches> section out of the default SG-1100 export and populate the <vlangroups> and <swports> subsections with the proper port tags / pvids for my vlans

Just sharing my notes in case anyone else is searching for help with the same upgrade.

@stephenw10
Yes, exactly.
No traffic.
The downward one never flashes.
I'm going to try to get spf+ modules and install the community version because I'm going around in circles :(
😢

Just an update - I swapped out the router last night, moved the main router to my desk with the intention of booting it up isolated and connected only to my laptop - but it failed to boot!

Luckily I still had the recovery USB handy - so I just did a usb recovery and restored the config....so I guess that is one way to upgrade ;)

thanks again for the suggestions.

J

You are able to connect to the serial console?

What do you see when you try to boot the USB drive? How does it fail?
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/solutions/sg-1100/reinstall-pfsense.html

Steve

Yup updates are always included. And in fact you do have TAC-Lite with any Netgate hardware so you can open a ticket for basic setup, config conversions, firmware requests etc.

Steve

Just add ports 1 and 5 as tagged members on those VLANs in the switch config.

Screenshot from 2024-01-14 22-48-58.png

What NICs does the CE device have? If it only has assigned NICs that actually do exist in the 8200 then it will just try to use them rather than asking you to reassign them.

Since you have Netgate hardware you can open a ticket with us and have the old config converted so it will import directly.
https://www.netgate.com/tac-support-request

Steve

@OhMyFlavors Yea seems like a faulty drive. Luckily it was still under warranty and was approved for RMA. Thanks Stephen for all your support. Much appreciated.

@dscheive said in SG-1100 too bright leds:

like the underglow from some teenagers civic.

Ha.

I would recommend just re-installing clean. 21.02 is a very old version and trying to upgrade to 23.09.1 from that will require several steps.

Make sure you have a backup on the config.

Steve

Nope you can always open a ticket for firmware requests like that.

That's a great idea! I may just get lucky with a spare board laying around with a last-ditch-effort on this.

Much appreciated, Steve!

Best regards,
Michael

@stephenw10 et all
I've been liaising with QSFPTek.com support team and they've been very helpful and have stated the Intel branded DAC cables should work "out of the box". They provide MBR details and a 5 year repair warranty on their DAC cables, which I believe is a solid warranty option. However the proof is in the pudding... I have ordered the DAC cables and will post an update on the functionality when I can.