USB 2.0 Flash Drive
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Use the embedded image and DD it or use physdiskwrite.exe to write the image to the USB drive the same as you did with m0n0wall.
:'(
So close but same error. I get..
error 1 lba 60064
No /boot/loaderFreeBSD/i386 boot
Default: 0:fd(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel
boot:
error 1 lba 60064
No /boot/kernel/kernelyada yada
Then sits with a blinking curser…..
An ideas?
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What are you plugging this drive into?
Have you tried CHS mode if the unit supports?
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What are you plugging this drive into?
Have you tried CHS mode if the unit supports?
It is a 1GB Kingston USB2.0 flash drive. I'm plugging it into the USB on this computer. I also plugged it in to the USB of another computer as well and I get the same error on boot.
I don't know what CHS mode is.
But the settings I have in the BIOS are working fine for booting to M0n0wall…...
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Maybe something here can help you:
http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=BootTroubleShooting
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Maybe something here can help you:
http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=BootTroubleShooting
I'm using a USB Thumb drive / flash drive…........ not a usb hard drive......
I'm guessing there is no fix for this? Maybe better thumbdrive support in the next update?
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USB thumbdrive support works just fine. I would suggest reading that wiki page.
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Use the embedded image and DD it or use physdiskwrite.exe to write the image to the USB drive the same as you did with m0n0wall.
:'(
So close but same error. I get..
error 1 lba 60064
No /boot/loaderFreeBSD/i386 boot
Default: 0:fd(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel
boot:
error 1 lba 60064
No /boot/kernel/kernelyada yada
Then sits with a blinking curser…..
An ideas?
Embeddeds have their output at the com1 interface. Use a crossovercable and a terminalprogram to connect to it from another PC. I guess it actually is booting but you just don't get the output after it switched to serial.
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Well I went to a different motherboard that boots from the thumbdrive just fine. I got PFsense up amd running now. I ran into 2 errors when it was setting up the USB thumbdrive though. I just told it to skip and it continued on just fine. The router is not in production yet. But I have a question, there is no swap file showing on the main page of PFsense. There is the Disk usage but no swap file usage. Is this bad? I went with all the defaults when setting up the thumbdrive install and I remember seeing it setup a partition called swap. I think one of the errors I got said something about swap file not found. If things will run fine without a swap then I will leave it, but if you think I need it, then i can reinstall PFSense and get you those errors I'm getting.
Thank you for your help!
Oh and I installed with RC3 as well this time!
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Well I fiddled with it and it looks like I need a bigger USB thumbdirve. I bought a 1GB thumbdrive and thats not big enough!!??? Man that sucks. In the setup it is wanting to make the swap file its self 1GB! I tried setting it lower but it warns me that I will not have enough space for a memory dump. But I only have 512MB of memory installed on the system .
So can I just force the swap file to be 512MB, the size of the memory on the system?
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Swap partition is optional. You can run without it. Just remove it completely.
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Swap partition is optional. You can run without it. Just remove it completely.
Sweet. Thank you for the response hoba, you kick ass!