Installing/Booting on SYS-E200-12A-8C
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You should use the memstick image if booting from USB. That doesn't use an ISO filesystem.
You may need to increase the boot delay:
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/troubleshooting/boot-issues.html#booting-from-usb -
Tried all combinations, result being the same:
Meaning: IMG image, ISO image, USB 3.0 Stick, USB 2.0 Stick, even tried kern.cam.boot_delay="100000":
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Hmm, if you enter
?there what devices are shown?Hmm, that's an Atom C5000 CPU? That may be the first one I've seen. It could be there is simply no driver support for it yet, either USB or SATA/NVMe. What type of disk was it you moved across?
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@stephenw10 ? will not work as the system hangs at that point.
I was trying to install from a USB to a SATA SSD. Nothing fancy. -
Mmm, OK. A SATA drive would require the SATA controller be supported An NVMe drive is just a PCIe device.
So you cannot enter anything at the
mountroot>prompt? -
Yup looks like Parker Ridge was unsupported as of Oct 2023:
https://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org/index.html#05686So anything added since would not yet be in CE. An NVMe drive might work because it's just a PCIe device as I say.
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@stephenw10 if what you are saying is true, it would at least boot from usb stick, right?
I will try for fun to install on another computer on a nvme drive and see if that boots. ;) -
Nope because the chipset USB and SATA controllers require driver support and that isn't available. Yet.
It stops at mountroot because the root drive never appears for it to try to mount root from.Just trying to see if anything has been added to FreeBSD 15 yet. You could try booting that:
https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/15.0/FreeBSD-15.0-CURRENT-amd64-20240125-6ec8bf9f3d17-267775-memstick.img.xz -
Yup, 15 Current it's a go. :)
Properly sees the SATA SSD:
As well as the usb drive:
Will try with a nvem ssd and come back with results.
Thanks!
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Aha, then I would expect current 24.03-dev snapshots to work. That would be a tricky install though!
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@stephenw10 No luck on the nvme ssd install:
If there is someone interested by the boot sequence until crash:
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@stephenw10 If I cannot boot 2.7.2 to enter + key and get on 23.09.01, I will not be able to go to 24.03... :(
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Yup you would need to do it on something else and move the drive. The NDI would change and need to be migrated but I'd expect it to boot OK.
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@stephenw10 That's not a pleasant process i guess as i only have 1 pfSense+ key and I would hate to loose it on an experiment.
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If that's the only way to install it we can migrate the registered NDI to the new device once you prove it works.
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@stephenw10 Will try to do that and I will reach to you regarding the license. Thanks for your support Stephen.
