Unable to reinstall pfSense Plus via USB
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I recently picked up an SG1100 and I'm trying to reinstall the pfSense Plus Software via USB.
I can boot into uboot, when when I run
run usbboot
,usb reset; run usbboot
, orrun usbrecovery
, I get the following messages and the device reboots:Marvell>> run usbboot resetting USB... USB0: Register 2000104 NbrPorts 2 Starting the controller USB XHCI 1.00 USB1: USB EHCI 1.00 scanning bus 0 for devices... WARN halted endpoint, queueing URB anyway. Unexpected XHCI event TRB, skipping... (3f6b6ab0 00000000 13000000 01008401) BUG at drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c:496/abort_td()! BUG! resetting ...
Model information is:
TIM-1.0 WTMI-devel-18.12.1-1a13f2f WTMI: system early-init SVC REV: 5, CPU VDD voltage: 1.248V NOTICE: Booting Trusted Firmware NOTICE: BL1: v1.5(release):1f8ca7e-dirty (Marvell-devel-18.12.2) NOTICE: BL1: Built : 10:16:46, Oct 13 2021 NOTICE: BL1: Booting BL2 NOTICE: BL2: v1.5(release):1f8ca7e-dirty (Marvell-devel-18.12.2) NOTICE: BL2: Built : 10:16:50, Oct 13 2021 NOTICE: BL1: Booting BL31 NOTICE: BL31: v1.5(release):1f8ca7e-dirty (Marvell-devel-18.12.2) NOTICE: BL31: Built : 10 U-Boot 2018.03-devel-18.12.3-gc9aa92c-dirty (Oct 13 2021 - 10:14:54 -0300) Model: Netgate 1100 CPU 1200 [MHz] L2 800 [MHz] TClock 200 [MHz] DDR 750 [MHz] DRAM: 1 GiB Comphy chip #0: Comphy-0: USB3 5 Gbps Comphy-1: PEX0 2.5 Gbps Comphy-2: SATA0 6 Gbps SATA link 0 timeout. AHCI 0001.0300 32 slots 1 ports 6 Gbps 0x1 impl SATA mode flags: ncq led only pmp fbss pio slum part sxs PCIE-0: Link down MMC: sdhci@d0000: 0, sdhci@d8000: 1 Loading Environment from SPI Flash... SF: Detected mx25u3235f with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 64 KiB, total 4 MiB OK Model: Netgate 1100 Net: eth0: neta@30000 [PRIME]
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Naturally, as soon as I post I figure it out. USB Drive was plugged into the wrong USB port. It should be connected to the white USB port by the WAN.
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Yup some USB drives don't play nicely with one of the ports. It always the same though.
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