SG-3100 upgraded storage to M.2 but disk is still reading eMMC storage

dchiang1987

The Problem: "Disks" widget is reporting eMMC storage information instead of newly installed m.2 drive info.

Background: I installed a new m.2 SATA drive and followed documentation for the SG-3100 and followed the instructions for reinstalling pfSense (https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/solutions/sg-3100/reinstall-pfsense.html). Apparently the device saw that I had a previous configuration and grabbed it as I was not prompted to restore. When I logged on, I noticed the Disk widget only stated disk size of 6.9G.

These are some outputs from shell:

[23.01-RELEASE][redacted]/root: geom disk list
Geom name: flash/spi0
Providers:
1. Name: flash/spi0
   Mediasize: 4194304 (4.0M)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Stripesize: 4096
   Stripeoffset: 0
   Mode: r0w0e0
   descr: w25q32jv
   ident: (null)
   rotationrate: unknown
   fwsectors: 0
   fwheads: 0

Geom name: ada0
Providers:
1. Name: ada0
   Mediasize: 512110190592 (477G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r0w0e0
   descr: TEAM TM8PS7512G
   ident: TPBF2212130090500083
   rotationrate: 0
   fwsectors: 63
   fwheads: 16

Geom name: mmcsd0
Providers:
1. Name: mmcsd0
   Mediasize: 7650410496 (7.1G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Stripesize: 512
   Stripeoffset: 0
   Mode: r2w2e6
   descr: MMCHC M32508 0.1 SN 09CAC05A MFG 08/2018 by 112 0x0000
   ident: 09CAC05A
   rotationrate: 0
   fwsectors: 0
   fwheads: 0

Geom name: mmcsd0boot0
Providers:
1. Name: mmcsd0boot0
   Mediasize: 4194304 (4.0M)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Stripesize: 512
   Stripeoffset: 0
   Mode: r0w0e0
   descr: MMCHC M32508 0.1 SN 09CAC05A MFG 08/2018 by 112 0x0000
   ident: 09CAC05A
   rotationrate: 0
   fwsectors: 0
   fwheads: 0

Geom name: mmcsd0boot1
Providers:
1. Name: mmcsd0boot1
   Mediasize: 4194304 (4.0M)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Stripesize: 512
   Stripeoffset: 0
   Mode: r0w0e0
   descr: MMCHC M32508 0.1 SN 09CAC05A MFG 08/2018 by 112 0x0000
   ident: 09CAC05A
   rotationrate: 0
   fwsectors: 0
   fwheads: 0

[23.01-RELEASE][redacted]/root: df -hi
Filesystem                      Size    Used   Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/diskid/DISK-09CAC05As2a    6.9G    2.0G    4.3G    32%     41k  897k    4%   /
devfs                           1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%       0     0     -   /dev
/dev/diskid/DISK-09CAC05As1      34M    2.0M     32M     6%       0     0     -   /boot/u-boot
tmpfs                           4.0M    136K    3.9M     3%      40   18k    0%   /var/run
devfs                           1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%       0     0     -   /var/dhcpd/dev

Is this typical behavior? I've tried doing a factory reset and restoring my configuration. I don't believe that would do anything because this sounds like a file system issue.

mcury

@dchiang1987 Check if this can help you:

dchiang1987

@mcury no dice. Now it’s not booting. What’s the command to revert?

mcury

@dchiang1987 hm, you probably are facing the same problem I did in this thread:

https://forum.netgate.com/topic/178170/sg-3100-m-2-install?_=1678409491837

Before you proceed with the steps below, I strongly recommend you to save all your envs.
Copy them to a notepad before you proceed, just in case something goes south.

What I did to solve that problem was:
1 - boot back to the Marvell>>
2 - type: printenv

Save everything in a notepad as a backup.

If you don't feel comfortable changing more settings, stop now and open a ticket with TAC and they will help you. They are very fast and very professional.
https://go.netgate.com

In case you want to proceed, what I did was to check m2dev env.
In my case it was set to 0, and for the m.2 boot to work, this env should be one.

Don't proceed without backing up all your envs, ok ? (printenv and save them to a notepad).

m2dev should be 1.

setenv m2dev 1
setenv bootcmd 'run setLED; run emmcboot;'
saveenv
reset

if I remember correctly, these were the commands I used.
Once I did that, boot worked from M.2 device.

Edit:
It would be a better idea to open a ticket with TAC, just to be safe.

dchiang1987

@mcury I tried changing m2dev to 1 and that worked. I modified your second line to run m2boot. Thanks for the tip!

mcury

@dchiang1987 said in SG-3100 upgraded storage to M.2 but disk is still reading eMMC storage:

I tried changing m2dev to 1 and that worked. I modified your second line to run m2boot. Thanks for the tip!

Great =)
Good to know that its working, I remember when that happened to me and it was baddd, hehe.