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    can't find '/etc/hostid' /boot/entropy size=0x1000

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      ZQt784
      last edited by ZQt784

      I had the exact same problem with an old ASRock UBox 111N.

      None of the recommended and other BIOS changes helped.

      Finally figured it out: switched to OPNSense.

      I installed OPNSense from a memstick then my ASRock booted normally, connected to the GUI, etc.

      I'd never heard of OPNSense until this pfSense problem. It's a fork from pfSense that happened in 2015. The code's much better so far, at least with older computers.

      Whew.

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        HandyManDM @BigMTL
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        @bigmtl I am trying to reload a SG-4860 via usb stick. Everything for the install finished and I'm able to do some configuring by hand....but after I started to restore the configuration from an "identical" machine the rebuilt one starts "hanging" right after the title msg. TURNS OUT it isn't actually hung as by accident I left the machine alone for several minutes and found that it had come up and the web interface was alive and working as was the router functionality that had been setup. What was happening is at the point the machine appeared to freeze, it was actually that the console USB Serial port is somehow becoming disabled and no more I/O happens until I reboot. This only starts once I start to import the previous config so further investigation may show what part of the config causes the problem.
        Does anyone have any ideas? The twin brother machine's console from which I'm importing the backed up config seems to work fine.

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          4o4rh @HandyManDM
          last edited by

          @handymandm hostid is required for ZFS. It seems to be a defect. workaround below
          https://forum.netgate.com/topic/141691/defect-etc-rc-d-hostid-file-for-zfs-not-generated-from-uuid/4?_=1669295521699

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          • rmaederR
            rmaeder @4o4rh
            last edited by

            @4o4rh
            This just happened to me when trying to install latest pfsense to a iKoolcore R2max.
            Had to go into single user mode and create the hostid as described in the referenced link.

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by

              Most systems will show that error at boot because there is no uuid passed by the BIOS. It's harmless though, you shouldn't need to do anything.

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              • rmaederR
                rmaeder @stephenw10
                last edited by

                @stephenw10
                not entirely harmless: it failed to continue booting. After install, the reboot hung right after printing the message about /etc/hostid.
                I then rebooted in single user mode, created /etc/hostid as described in the link mentioned earlier in this thread, only then did it reboot normally.

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  I've never seen that. That was in a current version? Net installer?

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                  • rmaederR
                    rmaeder @stephenw10
                    last edited by rmaeder

                    @stephenw10
                    Yes, latest net installer, purchased (for USD 0) from netgate two days ago.
                    System is an R2max with N100, 8GB RAM, 128 GB SSD.

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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                      last edited by

                      Hmm, what error did you see when trying to install ZFS before setting a hostid?

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                      • rmaederR
                        rmaeder @stephenw10
                        last edited by

                        @stephenw10 I didn't notice any errors during the setup process
                        (pfSense CE, ZFS, GPT, stripe, nda0). At the end I rebooted it, and then it hung.

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                        • stephenw10S
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                          last edited by

                          Ah so it just fails to boot the install without a valid hostid? Does it hang exactly at the hostid error?

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                          • rmaederR
                            rmaeder @stephenw10
                            last edited by

                            @stephenw10 IIRC the message about the missing /etc/hostid was the last message before the hang (I neglected to make a screenshot).

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