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    • jimpJ
      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
      last edited by

      It's hard to say if it should be da0 or ad0 based on that output, but either way you'd have to manually enter that every time you boot from there.

      What you're trying to do just isn't a supported config and isn't an easy thing to fix in that way.

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        felipeortega
        last edited by

        Truth Jimp
        what you said really works
        but I'm wanting to do everything in one
        to use only one stick
        as it loads the boot I think that works
        the problem that it emulates the ISO file
        so I'm lost  ;D

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        • jimpJ
          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
          last edited by

          The problem is that it doesn't emulate a CD-ROM, it's making it think the ISO is a hard drive.

          It may be da0 where the root resides, but maybe not, that may just be the USB stick itself. And ad0 is probably the hard drive of the target machine.

          You'll have to try each of the things in that list to see if any of them work.

          ufs:/dev/da0s1
          ufs:/dev/da0
          cd9660:/dev/acd0t01
          ufs:/dev/acd0
          ufs:/dev/ad0

          It could be any or none of those.

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            felipeortega
            last edited by

            Jimp thanks for helping me
            Excuse my lack of experience
            In the case says you try to run these commands in

            mountroot>

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            • jimpJ
              jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
              last edited by

              yes

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                felipeortega
                last edited by

                None of them nothing happens just returns me the error
                but if I run
                msdosfs: ​​/ dev/da0s1a
                it returns me an error

                Trying to mount root from msdosfs:/dev/da0s1
                lookup of /dev for devfs, erro:2
                init: not found in path /sbin/init:/sbin/oinit:/sbin/init.bak:/rescue/init:/stand/sysinstall
                panic: no init

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                • jimpJ
                  jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                  last edited by

                  If none of those work then it can't load the root fs of the "cd" and it can't continue, and you're back to what I told you before about it not working and you'll need either a separate USB stick.

                  If you're lucky then perhaps you can get grub to load the memstick disk image directly, though I'm not sure if it can do that.

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                    felipeortega
                    last edited by

                    maybe I'm wrong
                    then correct me
                    if the grub is called an ISO file
                    he will emulate my da0 as a cd
                    at boot time when he is recognizing my hardware
                    he found my flash drive and not been able to ride because it is in use?
                    If so I unzip the iso file to a folder in my flash drive will do what I can call the grub boot?

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                    • jimpJ
                      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                      last edited by

                      I really have no idea what grub is doing, what it wants or what it's capable of in that regard.

                      Perhaps someone who is more familiar with grub can offer some input there.

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                        felipeortega
                        last edited by

                        Thank you Jimp
                        Yesterday've sent an email to support them even more now nothing
                        perhaps you or someone can help me when I use this program
                        http://www.pendrivelinux.com/boot-multiple-iso-from-usb-multiboot-usb/

                        I'm trying to boot the ISO drawing on the stick

                        Some examples

                        title Ubuntu 10.04.1 (GNOME Desktop x86)
                        find –set-root /ubuntu-10.04.1-desktop-i386.iso
                        map /ubuntu-10.04.1-desktop-i386.iso (0xff)
                        map --hook
                        root (0xff)
                        kernel /casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper persistent iso-scan/filename=/ubuntu-10.04.1-desktop-i386.iso splash
                        initrd /casper/initrd.lz

                        title BackTrack 4 Final (Penetration Testing)
                        find --set-root /bt-boot/vmlinuz
                        kernel /bt-boot/vmlinuz BOOT=casper boot=casper persistent rw splash
                        initrd /bt-boot/initrd.gz
                        boot

                        How could properly call the boot pfsense?

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                        • stephenw10S
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                          last edited by

                          There are no examples of booting any BSD distro using pendrivelinux anywhere on their site (that I could find).

                          The script is designed for booting a linux kernel and pfSense isn't linux.

                          Steve

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                            felipeortega
                            last edited by

                            You're right!
                            but I saw people trying it and telling people that and
                            possible to do this work.
                            The boot is fine, but I think in Escape to
                            loader prompt can manually enter any command
                            To successfully continue the boot
                            maybe:

                            vfs.root.mountfrom = cd9660: / dev/da0s1a
                            and since he runs through a ISO that the
                            pendrive

                            Something is missing

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                              felipeortega
                              last edited by

                              Hello everyone

                              I returned to report that I had a small evolution in my problem but is not complete
                              The solution would be a dirty

                              at the time of mountroot> I apply the command msdosfs: ​​da0s1 to automate or do I insert the file loarder.conf

                              set vfs.root.mountfrom=msdosfs:da0s1
                              set vfs.root.mountfrom.options=rw

                              An important detail and make the iso image extracted at the root of the pendrive

                              This will load normally but still a problem occurs later on

                              Trying to mount root from msdosfs:ad0s1a

                              ___

                              ___/ f \

                              / p ___/ Sense

                              _/ 
                                  _
                              /

                              Welcome to pfSense 2.0 RC1  …
                              Mounting filesystems... done.
                              Creating symlinks......done.
                              Launching the init system...

                              At this point it freezes completely stopped what can be done?

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