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USB 2.0 Flash Drive

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    sullrich
    last edited by Sep 19, 2006, 9:47 PM

    What are you plugging this drive into?

    Have you tried CHS mode if the unit supports?

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      neemers
      last edited by Sep 19, 2006, 10:15 PM

      @sullrich:

      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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        sullrich
        last edited by Sep 19, 2006, 10:27 PM

        Maybe something here can help you:

        http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=BootTroubleShooting

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          neemers
          last edited by Sep 19, 2006, 10:32 PM

          @sullrich:

          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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            sullrich
            last edited by Sep 19, 2006, 10:44 PM

            USB thumbdrive support works just fine.  I would suggest reading that wiki page.

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              hoba
              last edited by Sep 20, 2006, 5:28 AM

              @neemers:

              @sullrich:

              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/loader

              FreeBSD/i386 boot
              Default: 0:fd(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel
              boot:
              error 1 lba 60064
              No /boot/kernel/kernel

              yada 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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                neemers
                last edited by Oct 3, 2006, 6:45 PM

                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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                  neemers
                  last edited by Oct 4, 2006, 9:04 PM Oct 4, 2006, 9:00 PM

                  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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                    hoba
                    last edited by Oct 4, 2006, 9:10 PM

                    Swap partition is optional. You can run without it. Just remove it completely.

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                      neemers
                      last edited by Oct 4, 2006, 9:16 PM

                      @hoba:

                      Swap partition is optional. You can run without it. Just remove it completely.

                      Sweet.  Thank you for the response hoba, you kick ass!

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