SG-5100 -- Verify that M.2 SSD is recognized after physically installing.
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By the way, while we're talking about the 5100 and m.2 SSD drives...
This is to the Netgate folks:
Just wondering... Why isn't there an option to add-on an m.2 SSD in the online store at time of purchase?Jeff
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The main reason is that the costs incurred by us opening the firewall and installing it are prohibitive.
Steve
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@stephenw10 Ah, ok, thanks for the info!
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All,
I wanted to followup on installing the M.2 SATA drive. I decided to go with a smaller replacement (Transcend 64 GB).
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The very first thing I did was go into setup by pressing F12 when it started boot.
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I could see the new drive as [PO: TS64GMTS400S]
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I then inserted the thumb drive with image and hit ESC to boot from the image.
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I let it run and during the process I was able to choose the TS64GMTS400S drive to install the image to.
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When it was done I removed the thumb drive and it happily rebooted from the original on board MMC - DOH!
On page 36 the manual says:
Which implies that it will automatically switch over, but it does not. Sooooooo . . . -
I headed back to Setup (see image 2) and mucked about int the setup screens. I found on the boot page under Boot Option #3:
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I scrolled down further to find "Hard Disk Drive BBS Priorities":
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Press Enter and you will see:
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With "Boot Option #1" selected, press Enter again and now you can choose your new drive:
Once selected, press Enter -- this will make your drive "Boot Option #1" and move the MMC to "Boot Option #2" -
Last, be sure to go over to the "Save & Exit" tab and select "Save Changes and Reset" and press Enter:
After this it then booted from the new drive (much faster). I knew it was the new drive, because it now had the default WAN/LAN configuration.
I also verified that if I switched back it was booting from MMC again (i.e. it showed my config I had built on the MMC).Finally I switched it back to the M.2 drive, booted and restored my setup from my saved config.xml file.
Mission Accomplished
I hope this helps anyone attempting the same. CHEERS
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@Phizix Awesome! Thanks for the detailed instructions and screenshots!
Jeff
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Thanks for taking the time to explain how to do this, it is much appreciated and was most helpful, pete
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I’m in precisely the same situation on our SG-5100 with failing eMMC and a M.2 installed. I spent some time today going through every menu item. Besides disabling it in the Boot menu, I can’t seem to completely disable it.
At the moment I’m coming to accept that booting will take about 10 minutes longer than it should.
Edit - Disabling instructions followed:
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/168299/sg-5100-disable-onboard-emmc/2 -
Do you also see the "A2" POST code?
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I will note that on my system that the eMMC is not disabled, but is at a lower boot priority.
It has been so long now, I have no idea if it still works, but does show in the boot menu.
In that sense I never disabled the eMMC.
So, can you "see" the new M.2 drive in the boot menus like I showed?
I had a larger one (in Gb), but the protocol was a little bit more advanced and the bios/M.2 port was not having it.I think from here you should let @stephenw10 guide you.
Phizix
P.S. Note, I LOVE my SG-5100 and will never go back to consumer/pro-sumer junk er . . . I mean hardware again!!
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@stephenw10 I think the A2 POST code may have flashed, but I’m not 100% sure. It takes soooooo long. The last time I played with it, I saw B2 for the first couple minutes, then it changed to B4 right before it finally gave me the option to press F12.
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@phizix said in SG-5100 -- Verify that M.2 SSD is recognized after physically installing.:
I will note that on my system that the eMmMC is not disabled, but is at a lower boot priority.
It has been so long now, I have no idea if it still works, but does show in the boot menu.
In that sense I never disabled the eMMC.
So, can you "see" the new M.2 drive in the boot menus like I showed?
I had a larger one (in Gb), but the protocol was a little bit more advanced and the bios/M.2 port was not having it.I think from here you should let @stephenw10 guide you.
Phizix
P.S. Note, I LOVE my SG-5100 and will never go back to consumer/pro-sumer junk er . . . I mean hardware again!!
Yes, I can see the M.2 in the boot options and it is set as a higher priority as described above.
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@lamaz
So now the question is, have you loaded the bootable image on it? If not it will still fall through to the eMMC.Phizix
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@phizix said in SG-5100 -- Verify that M.2 SSD is recognized after physically installing.:
@lamaz
So now the question is, have you loaded the bootable image on it? If not it will still fall through to the eMMC.Phizix
Just to be clear, my SG-5100 runs great with the M.2 as the boot device (after a very long boot wait). The eMMC has failed and will no longer boot.
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It must be trying to read the eMMC signature during post and finally gives up. @stephenw10 may be able to shed some light on that. Or tell if there is some way to prevent the BIOS from attempting to detect it.
Phizix
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@lamaz said in SG-5100 -- Verify that M.2 SSD is recognized after physically installing.:
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/168299/sg-5100-disable-onboard-emmc/2
The poster never responded on that thread. So same question here. Does the eMMC device still appear in the SDIO config menu?
Steve
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