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      luma
      last edited by

      @eweri:

      Hello luma!

      You don't have any trouble with reboot?
      How can I put a full version onto an 1GB CF with output to a seriell console port?

      Maybe I install pfsense into a VM on my MacBook Pro and after that copy it to the CF? Will this work?

      Bye,
      eweri

      Hello Eweri,

      I have to investigate for reboot. It seems working, I can't serial connect at the moment.

      Here is the solution for full install (I wrote the last part, Using VirtualBox) :
      http://devwiki.pfsense.org/FullInstallOnWRAP

      But it's not a good idea on CF! CF don't support too much write cycle! You are warn!

      Bye

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        eweri
        last edited by

        @bjorktorp:

        Or have I misunderstood the whole thing? Perhaps I should have put all the bin files on the freeDOS CF and let SB.COM autodetect which one to use?

        /Roger

        well I just typed "sb" and return and it started updating. I did not select any file.

        Bye,
        eweri

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          gmckinney
          last edited by

          @bjorktorp:

          Success with bios 0.92 and 1.2-RC3 embedded!  :)

          In the 0.98g ZIP there are only two bin-files: alix1.bin and alix2.bin, without any specific documentation. As I have alix2 boards I naturally asumed that I should use alix2.bin from the 0.98g ZIP. But following the logic from the 0.92 docs maybe I should have used alix1.bin???

          Or have I misunderstood the whole thing? Perhaps I should have put all the bin files on the freeDOS CF and let SB.COM autodetect which one to use?

          I did run into that exact issue - I had put the alix2.bin on syboon's image thinking that was the "correct" bios bin image for the Alix2 boards but IT IS NOT - the alix2.bin is for the Alix-3 board!!!  What happens is the alix2.bin bios image is looking for the third ethernet controller on the alix 3 board and since it does not find it things go south.

          Use the alix1.bin image as that one is the correct one for the alix2 boards.  The CF image syboon has created contains the correct bin image for the alix2 boards.

          gm…

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            naughtyusmaximus
            last edited by

            does anyone know what I need to do to get past this point?  I have a 4GB FAT16 formatted CF drive, I've used the 'file copy' method of installing freedos onto it.  The ALIX board will boot  and display the following:

            InitDiskBad or missing Command Interpreter: command.com /P /E:256
            Enter the full shell command line:

            i've tried various combinations of typing 'command.com', c:\command.com, etc. etc.  But have yet to get past this stage.

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              sullrich
              last edited by

              Contact PCEngines and get the newest BIOS.

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                naughtyusmaximus
                last edited by

                What do you mean?  The only reason I am trying to boot to CF is so that I can flash the newest BIOS…

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                  sullrich
                  last edited by

                  Huh?  You can flash the bios from within the bios itself…

                  I suggest contacting PCEngines for more info.

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                    naughtyusmaximus
                    last edited by

                    I've sent off an email to pc engines, but seeing as it sounds like you know how to do this, can you help out at all?

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                      sullrich
                      last edited by

                      I do not have a WRAP board and do not remember the key combination that brings up the BIOS screen.  Sorry.

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                        gmckinney
                        last edited by

                        @naughtyusmaximus:

                        does anyone know what I need to do to get past this point?  I have a 4GB FAT16 formatted CF drive, I've used the 'file copy' method of installing freedos onto it.  The ALIX board will boot  and display the following:

                        InitDiskBad or missing Command Interpreter: command.com /P /E:256
                        Enter the full shell command line:

                        i've tried various combinations of typing 'command.com', c:\command.com, etc. etc.  But have yet to get past this stage.

                        Hmmm - I was under the impression that DOS had a 2-Gig filesystem size limitation… that is not the case??

                        gm...

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                          naughtyusmaximus
                          last edited by

                          @sullrich:

                          I do not have a WRAP board and do not remember the key combination that brings up the BIOS screen.  Sorry.

                          I can get to the BIOS screen itself by pressing 's' as the system boots.  There is an option there for xmodem transfer there, but of course I don't know what format the bios firmware needs to be in.

                          –regarding the CF card, windows will let me format it as FAT16, so I assume that means there isn't a problem

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                            gmckinney
                            last edited by

                            @naughtyusmaximus:

                            –regarding the CF card, windows will let me format it as FAT16, so I assume that means there isn't a problem

                            Well - maybe and maybe not.

                            I am not very familiar with the DOS version used but if it is formatted with 512-byte hard-disk sector record size then the 8-bit sector to cluster size would be 32-kbyte which yields a total of 2-Gbyte using a 32-bit cluster counter (most DOS versions used this standard).  There is an "extended" FAT-16 version which is used by later versions of Windows that yields the 4-Gbyte per drive storage value - I suspect you are using either Windows XP or Vista to format the CF device??

                            I am thinking the DOS version used follows the older 512-byte/sector format and would only be able to address 2-Gbyte total but that is just me :)

                            I have used several CF devices (64-meg, 128-meg, 512-meg and 1-gig) to test the bios loader and they all worked - I tried using a 4-gig CF card but the physwritedisk program I used responded back that it could only write to a maximum of 2-gig and I had requested it write to a 4-gig device.

                            gm…

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                              bjorktorp
                              last edited by

                              I'm sorry that I made a fool of myself and perhaps also confused some of you with my latest post. My failure with bios 0.98g was only because I had chosen the wrong bios file. As usual it was only a matter of not reading properly. It was all there in the sbyoon's post.

                              @sbyoon:

                              You can download and write it to any cf card with 'physdiskwrite'. This image includs the 0.98g bios update files for Alix2. If you have Alix2, just execute 'sb.com' after freedos boot up.

                              So, the success story for me was:

                              1. Download sbyoon's image
                              2. Use physdiskwrite and write the image to an old 64MB CF
                              3. Boot it on my Alix2 card
                              4. Press 's' during bootup sequence and choose 'L' for LBA mode
                              5. Quit, save and continue booting
                              6. At the FreeDOS-prompt: Type SB.COM (This time with the original Alix1.bin on the FreeDOS disk!)
                              7. Power off and change CF
                              8. Successfully boot psSense 1.2-RC3 Embedded
                              9. Yeehaaa!

                              /Roger

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                                gmckinney
                                last edited by

                                In my book the ONLY foolish question is the one you DON'T ASK!    ;D

                                Glad to see you have the Alix up and running!!!

                                gm…

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                                  mlabenda
                                  last edited by

                                  Just upgraded my 2c2 to Bios 0.98g
                                  pfsense works like a champ with the todays snapshot incl. OpenVpn

                                  Even it is only the 433 MHz/128MB Version it works fine on my 30/2 Mbit cable Line

                                  Real nice work guys.
                                  Keep this nice work going

                                  Microsoft gives you "Windows"
                                  Opensource gives you the whole house

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                                    eweri
                                    last edited by

                                    @Rusty64bit:

                                    Just upgraded my 2c2 to Bios 0.98g
                                    pfsense works like a champ with the todays snapshot incl. OpenVpn

                                    Could you test if reboot works, please? My 1.2-RC3 panics during reboot but it reboots. If I use the pfsense-1024-image the cpu got hung during reboot and I have to pull the plug :-(
                                    BTW. You can see the panic at the seriell console, only.

                                    Bye,
                                    eweri

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                                      mlabenda
                                      last edited by

                                      Works fine
                                      No issues
                                      I took the image for the snapshot server yesterday
                                      But one thing
                                      Do you have the 2c3 or like i the 2c2 this is the 433MHz 128MB 3Nic without USB ?
                                      Do know this makes a difference…

                                      Pascal just put Version 0.99 out on the Pc Engines Website...

                                      Microsoft gives you "Windows"
                                      Opensource gives you the whole house

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                                        luma
                                        last edited by

                                        @luma:

                                        Hello Eweri,

                                        I have to investigate for reboot. It seems working, I can't serial connect at the moment.

                                        Here is the solution for full install (I wrote the last part, Using VirtualBox) :
                                        http://devwiki.pfsense.org/FullInstallOnWRAP

                                        But it's not a good idea on CF! CF don't support too much write cycle! You are warn!

                                        Bye

                                        Sorry Eweri, I forgot you. Same answer : no issue at all with reboot on 1.2RC3 10/26/2007.

                                        Bye

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                                          mlabenda
                                          last edited by

                                          This is my dmesg output

                                          Copyright © 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project.
                                          Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
                                          The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
                                          FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
                                          FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p9 #0: Mon Dec 10 04:26:02 EST 2007
                                              sullrich@builder6.pfsense.com:/usr/obj.pfSense/usr/src/sys/pfSense_wrap.6
                                          Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
                                          CPU: Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by AMD PCS (431.65-MHz 586-class CPU)
                                            Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x5a2  Stepping = 2
                                            Features=0x88a93d <fpu,de,pse,tsc,msr,cx8,sep,pge,cmov,clflush,mmx>AMD Features=0xc0400000 <mmx+,3dnow+,3dnow>real memory  = 134217728 (128 MB)
                                          avail memory = 121872384 (116 MB)
                                          pnpbios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum
                                          wlan: mac acl policy registered
                                          K6-family MTRR support enabled (2 registers)
                                          ath_hal: 0.9.17.2 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
                                          cpu0 on motherboard
                                          pcib0: <host to="" pci="" bridge="">pcibus 0 on motherboard
                                          pci0: <pci bus="">on pcib0
                                          MFGPT bar: f00100006200
                                          pci0: <encrypt decrypt,="" entertainment="" crypto="">at device 1.2 (no driver attached)
                                          vr0: <via 10="" vt6105m="" rhine="" iii="" 100basetx="">port 0x1000-0x10ff mem 0xe0000000-0xe00000ff irq 10 at device 9.0 on pci0
                                          miibus0: <mii bus="">on vr0
                                          ukphy0: <generic ieee="" 802.3u="" media="" interface="">on miibus0
                                          ukphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
                                          vr0: Ethernet address: 00:0d:b9:12:9f:84
                                          vr1: <via 10="" vt6105m="" rhine="" iii="" 100basetx="">port 0x1400-0x14ff mem 0xe0040000-0xe00400ff irq 11 at device 10.0 on pci0
                                          miibus1: <mii bus="">on vr1
                                          ukphy1: <generic ieee="" 802.3u="" media="" interface="">on miibus1
                                          ukphy1:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
                                          vr1: Ethernet address: 00:0d:b9:12:9f:85
                                          vr2: <via 10="" vt6105m="" rhine="" iii="" 100basetx="">port 0x1800-0x18ff mem 0xe0080000-0xe00800ff irq 12 at device 11.0 on pci0
                                          miibus2: <mii bus="">on vr2
                                          ukphy2: <generic ieee="" 802.3u="" media="" interface="">on miibus2
                                          ukphy2:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
                                          vr2: Ethernet address: 00:0d:b9:12:9f:86
                                          ath0: <atheros 5212="">mem 0xe00c0000-0xe00cffff irq 9 at device 12.0 on pci0
                                          ath0: Ethernet address: 00:02:6f:44:30:4b
                                          ath0: mac 10.4 phy 6.1 radio 6.3
                                          isab0: <pci-isa bridge="">port 0x6000-0x6007,0x6100-0x61ff,0x6200-0x623f,0x9d00-0x9d7f,0x9c00-0x9c3f at device 15.0 on pci0
                                          isa0: <isa bus="">on isab0
                                          atapci0: <generic ata="" controller="">port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xff00-0xff0f at device 15.2 on pci0
                                          ata0: <ata 0="" channel="">on atapci0
                                          ata1: <ata 1="" channel="">on atapci0
                                          ohci0: <ohci (generic)="" usb="" controller="">mem 0xefffe000-0xefffefff irq 15 at device 15.4 on pci0
                                          ohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
                                          usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
                                          usb0: <ohci (generic)="" usb="" controller="">on ohci0
                                          usb0: USB revision 1.0
                                          uhub0: AMD OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
                                          uhub0: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
                                          ehci0: <amd cs5536="" usb="" 2.0="" controller="">mem 0xefffd000-0xefffdfff irq 15 at device 15.5 on pci0
                                          ehci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
                                          usb1: EHCI version 1.0
                                          usb1: companion controller, 4 ports each: usb0
                                          usb1: <amd cs5536="" usb="" 2.0="" controller="">on ehci0
                                          usb1: USB revision 2.0
                                          uhub1: AMD EHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1
                                          uhub1: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
                                          orm0: <isa option="" rom="">at iomem 0xe0000-0xeafff on isa0
                                          ppc0: parallel port not found.
                                          sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x30 on isa0
                                          sio0: type 16550A, console
                                          sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
                                          sio1: port may not be enabled
                                          RTC BIOS diagnostic error 80 <clock_battery>Timecounter "TSC" frequency 431646313 Hz quality 800
                                          Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
                                          Fast IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.
                                          ad0: 967MB <cf 20070131="" card="" 1gb="">at ata0-master PIO4
                                          GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider ad0a is ufs/pfSense.
                                          GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider ad0d is ufs/pfSenseCfg.
                                          Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ufs/pfSense

                                          ___
                                          / f \
                                          / p \
                                          / Sense
                                          \/  \
                                              \
                                          /

                                          Welcome to pfSense 1.2-RC3 on the 'embedded' platform…

                                          Setting up embedded specific environment...
                                          done.
                                          Mounting filesystems...
                                          done.
                                          Creating symlinks...
                                          .
                                          .
                                          .
                                          done.
                                          Launching PHP init system...
                                          done.
                                          Initializing...
                                          .
                                          .
                                          .
                                          .
                                          .
                                          .
                                          .
                                          .
                                          .
                                          .
                                          .
                                          .
                                          .
                                          .
                                          .
                                          done.
                                          Starting device manager (devd)...
                                          done.
                                          Loading configuration...
                                          .
                                          .
                                          .
                                          done.
                                          Updating configuration...
                                          done.
                                          Cleaning backup cache...
                                          done.
                                          Setting up extended sysctls...
                                          done.
                                          Syncing user passwords...
                                          done.
                                          Starting Secure Shell Services...
                                          done.
                                          Setting timezone...
                                          done.
                                          Starting syslog...
                                          done.
                                          Configuring LAN interface...
                                          vr0: link state changed to UP
                                          vr1: link state changed to UP
                                          vr2: link state changed to DOWN
                                          done.
                                          Configuring WAN interface...
                                          done.
                                          Configuring OPT interfaces...
                                          done.
                                          Configuring CARP interfaces...
                                          done.
                                          route:
                                          writing to routing socket
                                          :
                                          No such process
                                          route:
                                          writing to routing socket
                                          :
                                          No such process
                                          route:
                                          writing to routing socket
                                          :
                                          No such process
                                          route:
                                          writing to routing socket
                                          :
                                          No such process
                                          route:
                                          writing to routing socket
                                          :
                                          No such process
                                          route:
                                          writing to routing socket
                                          :
                                          No such process
                                          route:
                                          writing to routing socket
                                          :
                                          No such process
                                          route:
                                          writing to routing socket
                                          :
                                          No such process
                                          route:
                                          writing to routing socket
                                          :
                                          No such process
                                          route:
                                          writing to routing socket
                                          :
                                          No such process
                                          Syncing system time before startup...
                                          done.
                                          pflog0: promiscuous mode enabled
                                          Configuring firewall...
                                          .
                                          .
                                          .
                                          done.
                                          Starting webConfigurator...
                                          done.
                                          Starting DHCP service...
                                          done.
                                          Starting DNS forwarder...
                                          done.
                                          Setting up microcode and tx/rx offloading...
                                          done.
                                          Starting FTP helpers...
                                          done.
                                          Generating RRD graphs...
                                          route:
                                          writing to routing socket
                                          :
                                          No such process
                                          done.
                                          Starting DHCP service...
                                          done.
                                          Starting OpenNTP time client...
                                          done.
                                          Starting CRON...
                                          done.
                                          Executing rc.d items...
                                          Starting /usr/local/etc/rc.d/*.sh...
                                          done.
                                          appending output to nohup.out
                                          Bootup complete

                                          FreeBSD/i386 (pfSense.local) (console)

                                          *** Welcome to pfSense 1.2-RC3-embedded on pfSense ***

                                          LAN*                    -> vr0 -> 192.168.178.1

                                          WAN*                    -> vr1 -> 0.0.0.0(DHCP)

                                          OPT1(OPT1)              -> vr2 -> NONE

                                          pfSense console setup


                                          0)  Logout (SSH only)
                                          1)  Assign Interfaces
                                          2)  Set LAN IP address
                                          3)  Reset webConfigurator password
                                          4)  Reset to factory defaults
                                          5)  Reboot system
                                          6)  Halt system
                                          7)  Ping host
                                          8)  Shell
                                          9)  PFtop
                                          10)  Filter Logs
                                          11)  Restart webConfigurator
                                          12)  pfSense PHP shell
                                          13)  Upgrade from console

                                          Enter an option:
                                          vr0: Using force reset command.</cf></clock_battery></isa></amd></amd></ohci></ohci></ata></ata></generic></isa></pci-isa></atheros></generic></mii></via></generic></mii></via></generic></mii></via></encrypt></pci></host></mmx+,3dnow+,3dnow></fpu,de,pse,tsc,msr,cx8,sep,pge,cmov,clflush,mmx>

                                          Microsoft gives you "Windows"
                                          Opensource gives you the whole house

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                                            eweri
                                            last edited by

                                            @eweri:

                                            Could you test if reboot works, please? My 1.2-RC3 panics during reboot but it reboots. If I use the pfsense-1024-image the cpu got hung during reboot and I have to pull the plug :-(
                                            BTW. You can see the panic at the seriell console, only.

                                            Bye,
                                            eweri

                                            Just reply to my self: Installed tinyBIOS 0.99 today and now I have no reboot issues any more. Going to try the 1024MB image and see if the reboot-hung is gone also.

                                            Bye,
                                            eweri

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