It depends on the OS.

The main hurdle you'll have is that it only has a serial console and that console is on what most operating systems would refer to as "com2".

You can look over the instructions we have for booting other operating systems on that hardware at https://docs.netgate.com/platforms/rcc-ve-4860/install-guide.html -- the specifics will vary depending on the OS. Some of those are a bit out of date since we haven't sold that hardware in a while, but the general suggestions should still apply.

so i ended up finding the issue a console was not set to a static IP and threw the whole system is a mess but now is acting a lot better and I can get around an A-B without traffic shaping the only issue i really have now is only one wifi band on my router is getting good wifi speeds

I would configure that as a standard interface for an HA pair and see what happens. Troubleshoot it if there are issues.

Steve

There is no straight forward way to do this for the reasons you found. There is an open feature request for it:
https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4499

You can apply those settings to the lagg member interfaces using ifconfig at the command line. Thus you can also apply them at every boot using a shellcmd if that is required in your setup.
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/development/executing-commands-at-boot-time.html

Steve

@jake Not really. I ended up returning it as we couldn't get the XG-7100 to work with the SFP. The XG-7100 had a few quirks due to the internal switch but that shouldn't have made the SFP not work. All the other units I had from Netgate (different models) worked extremely well. The few issues I did have were fixed quickly and directly. I did purchase a media convertor for the SFP to 1G-BaseT as a potential workaround but didn't end up using it.

Ok thank you and sorry to have put the mess in the topic.
I thought that the topic was almost the same.
Yann.

Ah that is just their main office hours, not the support hours ;) Makes sense now..

It could be if the extra ram has increased the boot time beyond the watchdog timeout perhaps.
Try disabling that in the BIOS.

Steve

Yup, from a failed upgrade like that I would install 2.4.5 clean and then import the config again.

We can assist with both those things if you open a ticket: https://go.netgate.com/

Steve

Yes, though check the docs for notes on how the ports appear: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/solutions/xg-7100-1u/io-ports.html#optional-4-port-intel-1-gbps-ethernet-expansion-card

No idea why but it does look like you were blocked. I would guess your email is blacklisted somewhere.
You are not anymore.

Steve

I will try this evening after the workday and report back.

I submitted a support request... and response was nearly immediate with a firmware image. Once I had the image, was relatively simple to install the image file onto the the sg-1100, as per the reinstall instructions:

https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/solutions/sg-1100/reinstall-pfsense.html

bonus: the Etcher image software is a keeper. Had not seen this open source software before and it was terrifically easy to flash the image to a USB.

While the upgrade was painful and problematic, the support desk and information they provided was the exact opposite, easy and simple. BTW the response on my ticket from the time of submission was <5 minutes.

@wedawns said in SG3100 can't read ubldr.bin:

amd64.img

The SG-3100 is armv6 not amd64 so that image will never boot.

We can get the correct image when you open a ticket.

Steve

Sounds like it may be a hardware issue. Open an issue at https://go.netgate.com and the support crew can assist you

I have never tried to be honest since our image installs UFS with BIOS/MBR by default.

Coreboot can certainly boot UEFI though so it may be possible with some work:
https://www.coreboot.org/TianoCore

Steve

boot -s didn't work.

I have an update, i have put pfsense livecd on a USB, boot on it, i have done fsck on the right disk... now i have this :

Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ufsid/5e3dcecfb68b7ca4 [rw]...
uhub0: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered
random: unblocking device.
CPU: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU C3558 @ 2.20GHz (2200.07-MHz K8-class CPU)
Origin="GenuineIntel" Id=0x506f1 Family=0x6 Model=0x5f Stepping=1
Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
Features2=0x4ff8ebbf<SSE3,PCLMULQDQ,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,SDBG,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,MOVBE,POPCNT,TSCDLT,AESNI,XSAVE,OSXSAVE,RDRAND>
AMD Features=0x2c100800<SYSCALL,NX,Page1GB,RDTSCP,LM>
AMD Features2=0x101<LAHF,Prefetch>
Structured Extended Features=0x2294e283<FSGSBASE,TSCADJ,SMEP,ERMS,NFPUSG,MPX,PQE,RDSEED,SMAP,CLFLUSHOPT,PROCTRACE,SHA>
Structured Extended Features3=0xac000400<IBPB,STIBP,ARCH_CAP,SSBD>
XSAVE Features=0xf<XSAVEOPT,XSAVEC,XINUSE,XSAVES>
IA32_ARCH_CAPS=0x69<RDCL_NO>
VT-x: PAT,HLT,MTF,PAUSE,EPT,UG,VPID,VID,PostIntr
TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics

and its freezing after that (never had that before)

and also, before i had 1 green light and 2 red ... now i have 2 green light.. and 1 down (power are green) but nothing for data i think

While i mount my disk on my usb key i was able to find my backups .. didn't get them tho.. didn't know how to do it on minicom

for the serial concole, no previous config, all default

Unfortunately it's very unlikely you will be able to retrieve any data from the eMMC if the board has failed.
Open a ticket with us: https://go.netgate.com/

Steve

How you fixed this?
I have the same problem:
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/151684/sg-1100-pkg-static-https-repo-netgate-com-pkg-pfsense_factory-v2_4_5_aarch64-core-meta-txz-authentication-error

Good to hear, thanks for following up. 👍