2100 won't boot. Stuck in loop.
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Circle LED rapid blue flash. Console lists a bunch of text commands. Can't factory reset...
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@Happydog hard to say without knowing what the screen says. If you can’t copy/paste can you take a picture?
Was there a power outage? Or anything else that triggered it?
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/troubleshooting/boot-issues.html
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/troubleshooting/index.html#hardware -
@SteveITS I’m not sure what bricked it. On one of them it happened during an upgrade. I reinstalled the firmware (got in 30 min from NetGate) and restored a recent XML backup and its ok now.
The instructions for USB recovery aren’t great. I had to execute run usbrecovery twice in the session. But it ended up working. Also had the backup file on the flashed usb key but couldn’t figure out how to restore it in the console. The instructions said it could be done. Didn’t matter though.
Thanks!
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You shouldn't have to run usbrecovery more than once. Not sure what might have happened there.
For reference the external config locator will pull in a config from the USB stick at first boot after install as long as it's named config.xml.
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/backup/restore-during-install.html#restore-using-the-external-configuration-locator-eclSteve
