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    How to install on a PC Engines APU1C board?

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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    • B Offline
      blackbird
      last edited by

      All I get on boot is this.

      ROOT MOUNT ERROR:
      If you have invalid mount options, reboot, and first try the following from
      the loader prompt:

      set vfs.root.mountfrom.options=rw

      and then remove invalid mount options from /etc/fstab.

      Loader variables:
      vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/ufs/pfsense0
      vfs.root.mountfrom.options=ro,sync,noatime

      Manual root filesystem specification:
        <fstype>:<device>  Mount <device>using filesystem <fstype>eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a
                            eg. cd9660:/dev/acd0
                            This is equivalent to: mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /

      ?                  List valid disk boot devices
        <empty line="">      Abort manual input

      mountroot></empty></fstype></device></device></fstype>

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      • J Offline
        jasonlitka
        last edited by

        @blackbird:

        I cant seem to get CTRL-C to work in PUTTY. all I can get to is a mountroot>  prompt

        That's because you haven't finished booting.  It sounds like you skipped the step to introduce a boot delay.  Another user reported a similar issue, not likely to be user-error on both cases.

        I can break anything.

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        • P Offline
          phil.davis
          last edited by

          Finally got my APU1C today. Used physdiskwrite to put pfSense-2.1.2-RELEASE-4g-amd64-nanobsd.img.gz onto a 4GB SD card. Put it in and booted. Used puTTY from windows, first at 115200 to see the BIOS output (just for fun). Then at 9600 to see the pfSense output. Did the ctrl-C thing and "set kern.cam.boot_delay=10000" then "boot". It spewed out plenty of output, but then went to the mountroot prompt._
          Thought I might as well use the latest firmware, so I made a USB stick with the PCengines  apu-tinycore-usb-installer.exe from http://www.pcengines.ch/tinycore.htm - that went well, like this:

          coreboot-unknown Tue Dec 24 11:13:00 MST 2013 booting...
          PCI: Left over static devices:
          PCI: 00:15.1
          PCI: 00:15.2
          PCI: 00:15.3
          PCI: Check your devicetree.cb.
          APIC: 00 missing read_resources
          APIC: 01 missing read_resources
          Start bios (version ?-20131224_111227-ubuntubuilderx64)
          CPU Mhz=1000
          Found 28 PCI devices (max PCI bus is 04)
          Found 2 cpu(s) max supported 2 cpu(s)
          Copying PIR from 0x7e16f000 to 0x000fdb40
          Copying MPTABLE from 0x7e170000/7e170010 to 0x000fda10
          Copying ACPI RSDP from 0x7e171000 to 0x000fd9f0
          Copying SMBIOS entry point from 0x7e17c400 to 0x000fd9d0
          Scan for VGA option rom
          EHCI init on dev 00:12.2 (regs=0xfeb08420)
          EHCI init on dev 00:13.2 (regs=0xfeb08520)
          OHCI init on dev 00:14.5 (regs=0xfeb06000)
          EHCI init on dev 00:16.2 (regs=0xfeb08620)
          Found 1 lpt ports
          Found 2 serial ports
          ATA controller 1 at 1f0/3f4/4010 (irq 14 dev a1)
          ATA controller 2 at 170/374/4018 (irq 15 dev a1)
          AHCI controller at 11.0, iobase feb08000, irq 0
          Searching bootorder for: /rom@img/sortbootorder
          Searching bootorder for: /rom@img/memtest
          Searching bootorder for: /pci@i0cf8/usb@12,2/storage@1/*@0/*@0,0
          Searching bootorder for: /pci@i0cf8/usb@12,2/usb-*@1
          USB MSC vendor='GH' product='PicoR' rev='1.00' type=0 removable=1
          Searching bootorder for: /pci@i0cf8/usb@16,2/storage@1/*@0/*@0,0
          Searching bootorder for: /pci@i0cf8/usb@16,2/usb-*@1
          USB MSC blksize=512 sectors=16039872
          USB MSC vendor='Multiple' product='Card  Reader' rev='1.00' type=0 removable=1
          USB MSC blksize=512 sectors=15523840
          All threads complete.
          Scan for option roms
          Press F12 for boot menu.
          
          Select boot device:
          
          1\. USB MSC Drive Multiple Card  Reader 1.00
          2\. USB MSC Drive GH PicoR 1.00
          3\. Payload [sortbootorder]
          4\. Payload [memtest]
          
          drive 0x000fd960: PCHS=0/0/0 translation=lba LCHS=998/255/63 s=16039872
          drive 0x000fd930: PCHS=0/0/0 translation=lba LCHS=966/255/63 s=15523840
          Space available for UMB: 000c0000-000ee800
          Returned 49152 bytes of ZoneHigh
          e820 map has 6 items:
            0: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 = 1 RAM
            1: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 = 2 RESERVED
            2: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 = 2 RESERVED
            3: 0000000000100000 - 000000007e16ac00 = 1 RAM
            4: 000000007e16ac00 - 000000007efffc00 = 2 RESERVED
            5: 00000000f8000000 - 00000000f9000000 = 2 RESERVED
          enter handle_19:
            NULL
          Booting from Hard Disk...
          Booting from 0000:7c00
          
          SYSLINUX 3.85 2010-02-20 EBIOS Copyright (C) 1994-2010 H. Peter Anvin et al
          
          SYSLINUX 3.85 2010-02-20  Copyright (C) 1994-2010 H. Peter Anvin et al
          Loading vmlinuz...............................................
          Loading core.gz...ready.
          
            ____   ____   _____             _
           |  _ \ / ___| | ____|_ __   __ _(_)_ __   ___  ___
           | |_) | |     |  _| | '_ \ / _` | | '_ \ / _ \/ __|
           |  __/| |___  | |___| | | | (_| | | | | |  __/\__ \
           |_|    \____| |_____|_| |_|\__, |_|_| |_|\___||___/
                                      |___/
          
          TinyCore www.tinycorelinux.com
          
          searching for home directory ...
          
          Welcome to TinyCore running on APU
          To update the BIOS type "flashrom -w apu140405.rom"
          
          [+64.5 C][root@box:/mnt/sda1]$ ls -l
          total 18200
          -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         18339 Mar  3  2010 Copying
          -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           394 Apr 10  2014 Readme.txt
          -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       2097152 Apr  6  2014 apu140405.rom
          -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           123 Apr  9  2014 autostart.sh
          -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      13539832 Apr 13  2014 core.gz
          -r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root         15086 Apr 17  2014 ldlinux.sys
          -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           236 Apr 10  2014 syslinux.cfg
          -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           233 Apr  2  2014 takemehome.txt
          -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       2941168 Feb 14  2014 vmlinuz
          [+62.0 C][root@box:/mnt/sda1]$ flashrom -w apu140405.rom
          flashrom v0.9.7-r1711-APU on Linux 3.8.13-tinycore (i686)
          flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org
          
          Using default programmer "internal".
          Calibrating delay loop... OK.
          coreboot table found at 0x7e17cc00.
          Found chipset "AMD SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0". Enabling flash write... OK.
          Found Macronix flash chip "MX25L1605A/MX25L1606E" (2048 kB, SPI) at physical address 0xffe00000.
          Reading old flash chip contents... done.
          Erasing and writing flash chip... Erase/write done.
          [+65.2 C][root@box:/mnt/sda1]$
          
          

          Took out the USB stick and did the boot and ctrl-C… sequence again. I still get the mountroot prompt.

          Consoles: serial port
          BIOS drive C: is disk0
          BIOS 639kB/2064688kB available memory
          
          FreeBSD/x86 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
          (root@pf2.1.1_amd64.pfsense.org, Thu Apr 10 06:26:53 EDT 2014)
          Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
          /boot/kernel/kernel data=0x8d2938 data=0x555948+0xc24e0 syms=[0x8+0xe4000+0x8+0xd2118]
          -
          Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
          Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel] in 4 seconds...
          
          Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help.
          OK set kern.cam.boot_delay=10000
          OK boot
          Copyright (c) 1992-2012 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 8.3-RELEASE-p15 #0: Thu Apr 10 06:39:47 EDT 2014
              root@pf2.1.1_amd64.pfsense.org:/usr/obj.pfSense/usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/pfSense_wrap.8.amd64 amd64
          Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
          CPU: AMD G-T40E Processor (1000.01-MHz K8-class CPU)
            Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x500f20  Family = 14  Model = 2  Stepping = 0
            Features=0x178bfbff <fpu,vme,de,pse,tsc,msr,pae,mce,cx8,apic,sep,mtrr,pge,mca,cmov,pat,pse36,clflush,mmx,fxsr,sse,sse2,htt>Features2=0x802209 <sse3,mon,ssse3,cx16,popcnt>AMD Features=0x2e500800 <syscall,nx,mmx+,ffxsr,page1gb,rdtscp,lm>AMD Features2=0x35ff <lahf,cmp,svm,extapic,cr8,abm,sse4a,mas,prefetch,ibs,skinit,wdt>TSC: P-state invariant
          real memory  = 2115289088 (2017 MB)
          avail memory = 2021343232 (1927 MB)
          ACPI APIC Table: <core  coreboot="">FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
          FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 2 core(s)
           cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
           cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  1
          ioapic0 <version 2.1="">irqs 0-23 on motherboard
          wlan: mac acl policy registered
          ipw_bss: You need to read the LICENSE file in /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_ipw/.
          ipw_bss: If you agree with the license, set legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1 in /boot/loader.conf.
          module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (ipw_bss_fw, 0xffffffff80422ab0, 0) error 1
          ipw_ibss: You need to read the LICENSE file in /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_ipw/.
          ipw_ibss: If you agree with the license, set legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1 in /boot/loader.conf.
          module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (ipw_ibss_fw, 0xffffffff80422b50, 0) error 1
          ipw_monitor: You need to read the LICENSE file in /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_ipw/.
          ipw_monitor: If you agree with the license, set legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1 in /boot/loader.conf.
          module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (ipw_monitor_fw, 0xffffffff80422bf0, 0) error 1
          cryptosoft0: <software crypto="">on motherboard
          padlock0: No ACE support.
          acpi0: <core coreboot="">on motherboard
          acpi0: [ITHREAD]
          acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
          Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
          acpi_timer0: <32-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0
          cpu0: <acpi cpu="">on acpi0
          cpu1: <acpi cpu="">on acpi0
          acpi_hpet0: <high precision="" event="" timer="">iomem 0xfed00000-0xfed003ff on acpi0
          Timecounter "HPET" frequency 14318180 Hz quality 900
          pcib0: <acpi host-pci="" bridge="">port 0xcf8-0xcff iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on acpi0
          pci0: <acpi pci="" bus="">on pcib0
          pcib1: <acpi pci-pci="" bridge="">irq 16 at device 4.0 on pci0
          pci1: <acpi pci="" bus="">on pcib1
          re0: <realtek 8111="" 8168="" b="" c="" cp="" d="" dp="" e="" f="" pcie="" gigabit="" ethernet="">port 0x1000-0x10ff mem 0xf7a00000-0xf7a00fff,0xf7900000-0xf7903fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1
          re0: Using 1 MSI-X message
          re0: ASPM disabled
          re0: Chip rev. 0x2c000000
          re0: MAC rev. 0x00000000
          miibus0: <mii bus="">on re0
          rgephy0: <rtl8169s 8110s="" 8211b="" media="" interface="">PHY 1 on miibus0
          rgephy0:  none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 10baseT-FDX-flow, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 100baseTX-FDX-flow, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-master, 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, 1000baseT-FDX-flow, 1000baseT-FDX-flow-master, auto, auto-flow
          re0: [ITHREAD]
          pcib2: <acpi pci-pci="" bridge="">irq 17 at device 5.0 on pci0
          pci2: <acpi pci="" bus="">on pcib2
          re1: <realtek 8111="" 8168="" b="" c="" cp="" d="" dp="" e="" f="" pcie="" gigabit="" ethernet="">port 0x2000-0x20ff mem 0xf7c00000-0xf7c00fff,0xf7b00000-0xf7b03fff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci2
          re1: Using 1 MSI-X message
          re1: ASPM disabled
          re1: Chip rev. 0x2c000000
          re1: MAC rev. 0x00000000
          miibus1: <mii bus="">on re1
          rgephy1: <rtl8169s 8110s="" 8211b="" media="" interface="">PHY 1 on miibus1
          rgephy1:  none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 10baseT-FDX-flow, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 100baseTX-FDX-flow, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-master, 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, 1000baseT-FDX-flow, 1000baseT-FDX-flow-master, auto, auto-flow
          re1: [ITHREAD]
          pcib3: <acpi pci-pci="" bridge="">irq 18 at device 6.0 on pci0
          pci3: <acpi pci="" bus="">on pcib3
          re2: <realtek 8111="" 8168="" b="" c="" cp="" d="" dp="" e="" f="" pcie="" gigabit="" ethernet="">port 0x3000-0x30ff mem 0xf7e00000-0xf7e00fff,0xf7d00000-0xf7d03fff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci3
          re2: Using 1 MSI-X message
          re2: ASPM disabled
          re2: Chip rev. 0x2c000000
          re2: MAC rev. 0x00000000
          miibus2: <mii bus="">on re2
          rgephy2: <rtl8169s 8110s="" 8211b="" media="" interface="">PHY 1 on miibus2
          rgephy2:  none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 10baseT-FDX-flow, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 100baseTX-FDX-flow, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-master, 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, 1000baseT-FDX-flow, 1000baseT-FDX-flow-master, auto, auto-flow
          re2: [ITHREAD]
          atapci0: <ati 800="" ixp700="" sata300="" controller="">port 0x4010-0x4017,0x4020-0x4023,0x4018-0x401f,0x4024-0x4027,0x4000-0x400f mem 0xf7f08000-0xf7f083ff irq 19 at device 17.0 on pci0
          atapci0: [ITHREAD]
          atapci0: AHCI v1.20 controller with 6 6Gbps ports, PM supported
          ata2: <ata channel="">at channel 0 on atapci0
          ata2: [ITHREAD]
          ata3: <ata channel="">at channel 1 on atapci0
          ata3: [ITHREAD]
          ata4: <ata channel="">at channel 2 on atapci0
          ata4: [ITHREAD]
          ata5: <ata channel="">at channel 3 on atapci0
          ata5: [ITHREAD]
          ata6: <ata channel="">at channel 4 on atapci0
          ata6: [ITHREAD]
          ata7: <ata channel="">at channel 5 on atapci0
          ata7: [ITHREAD]
          ohci0: <ohci (generic)="" usb="" controller="">mem 0xf7f04000-0xf7f04fff irq 18 at device 18.0 on pci0
          ohci0: [ITHREAD]
          usbus0: <ohci (generic)="" usb="" controller="">on ohci0
          ehci0: <ehci (generic)="" usb="" 2.0="" controller="">mem 0xf7f08400-0xf7f084ff irq 17 at device 18.2 on pci0
          ehci0: [ITHREAD]
          usbus1: EHCI version 1.0
          usbus1: <ehci (generic)="" usb="" 2.0="" controller="">on ehci0
          ohci1: <ohci (generic)="" usb="" controller="">mem 0xf7f05000-0xf7f05fff irq 18 at device 19.0 on pci0
          ohci1: [ITHREAD]
          usbus2: <ohci (generic)="" usb="" controller="">on ohci1
          ehci1: <ehci (generic)="" usb="" 2.0="" controller="">mem 0xf7f08500-0xf7f085ff irq 17 at device 19.2 on pci0
          ehci1: [ITHREAD]
          usbus3: EHCI version 1.0
          usbus3: <ehci (generic)="" usb="" 2.0="" controller="">on ehci1
          pci0: <serial bus,="" smbus="">at device 20.0 (no driver attached)
          isab0: <pci-isa bridge="">at device 20.3 on pci0
          isa0: <isa bus="">on isab0
          pcib4: <acpi pci-pci="" bridge="">at device 20.4 on pci0
          pci4: <acpi pci="" bus="">on pcib4
          ohci2: <ohci (generic)="" usb="" controller="">mem 0xf7f06000-0xf7f06fff irq 18 at device 20.5 on pci0
          ohci2: [ITHREAD]
          usbus4: <ohci (generic)="" usb="" controller="">on ohci2
          pcib5: <acpi pci-pci="" bridge="">at device 21.0 on pci0
          pci5: <acpi pci="" bus="">on pcib5
          ohci3: <ohci (generic)="" usb="" controller="">mem 0xf7f07000-0xf7f07fff at device 22.0 on pci0
          ohci3: [ITHREAD]
          usbus5: <ohci (generic)="" usb="" controller="">on ohci3
          ehci2: <ehci (generic)="" usb="" 2.0="" controller="">mem 0xf7f08600-0xf7f086ff at device 22.2 on pci0
          ehci2: [ITHREAD]
          usbus6: EHCI version 1.0
          usbus6: <ehci (generic)="" usb="" 2.0="" controller="">on ehci2
          acpi_button0: <power button="">on acpi0
          atrtc0: <at realtime="" clock="">port 0x70-0x71 irq 8 on acpi0
          orm0: <isa option="" rom="">at iomem 0xee800-0xeffff on isa0
          ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port range
          uart0: <16550 or compatible> at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
          uart0: [FILTER]
          uart0: console (9600,n,8,1)
          uart1: <16550 or compatible> at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
          uart1: [FILTER]
          acpi_throttle0: <acpi cpu="" throttling="">on cpu0
          acpi_throttle1: <acpi cpu="" throttling="">on cpu1
          acpi_throttle1: failed to attach P_CNT
          device_attach: acpi_throttle1 attach returned 6
          Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
          IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.
          usbus0: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0
          usbus1: 480Mbps High Speed USB v2.0
          ugen0.1: <ati>at usbus0
          uhub0: <ati 1="" 9="" ohci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usbus0
          ugen1.1: <ati>at usbus1
          uhub1: <ati 1="" 9="" ehci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 2.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usbus1
          usbus2: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0
          usbus3: 480Mbps High Speed USB v2.0
          ugen2.1: <ati>at usbus2
          uhub2: <ati 1="" 9="" ohci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usbus2
          ugen3.1: <ati>at usbus3
          uhub3: <ati 1="" 9="" ehci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 2.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usbus3
          usbus4: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0
          usbus5: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0
          ugen4.1: <ati>at usbus4
          uhub4: <ati 1="" 9="" ohci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usbus4
          ugen5.1: <ati>at usbus5
          uhub5: <ati 1="" 9="" ohci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usbus5
          usbus6: 480Mbps High Speed USB v2.0
          uhub0: 5 ports with 5 removable, self powered
          ugen6.1: <ati>at usbus6
          uhub6: <ati 1="" 9="" ehci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 2.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usbus6
          SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
          Root mount waiting for: usbus6 usbus5 usbus4 usbus3 usbus2 usbus1
          uhub4: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
          uhub2: 5 ports with 5 removable, self powered
          uhub5: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
          Root mount waiting for: usbus6 usbus3 usbus1
          uhub1: 5 ports with 5 removable, self powered
          uhub3: 5 ports with 5 removable, self powered
          uhub6: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
          ugen6.2: <generic>at usbus6
          umass0: <generic 0="" 2="" flash="" card="" readerwriter,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 2.01="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usbus6
          Root mount waiting for: usbus6
          Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ufs/pfsense1
          ROOT MOUNT ERROR:
          If you have invalid mount options, reboot, and first try the following from
          the loader prompt:
          
               set vfs.root.mountfrom.options=rw
          
          and then remove invalid mount options from /etc/fstab.
          
          Loader variables:
          vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/ufs/pfsense1
          vfs.root.mountfrom.options=ro,sync,noatime
          
          Manual root filesystem specification:
            <fstype>:<device>Mount <device>using filesystem <fstype>eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a
                                 eg. cd9660:/dev/acd0
                                 This is equivalent to: mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /
          
            ?                  List valid disk boot devices
            <empty line="">Abort manual input
          
          mountroot></empty></fstype></device></device></fstype></generic></generic></ati></ati></ati></ati></ati></ati></ati></ati></ati></ati></ati></ati></ati></ati></acpi></acpi></isa></at></power></ehci></ehci></ohci></ohci></acpi></acpi></ohci></ohci></acpi></acpi></isa></pci-isa></serial></ehci></ehci></ohci></ohci></ehci></ehci></ohci></ohci></ata></ata></ata></ata></ata></ata></ati></rtl8169s></mii></realtek></acpi></acpi></rtl8169s></mii></realtek></acpi></acpi></rtl8169s></mii></realtek></acpi></acpi></acpi></acpi></high></acpi></acpi></core></software></version></core ></lahf,cmp,svm,extapic,cr8,abm,sse4a,mas,prefetch,ibs,skinit,wdt></syscall,nx,mmx+,ffxsr,page1gb,rdtscp,lm></sse3,mon,ssse3,cx16,popcnt></fpu,vme,de,pse,tsc,msr,pae,mce,cx8,apic,sep,mtrr,pge,mca,cmov,pat,pse36,clflush,mmx,fxsr,sse,sse2,htt> 
          

          Anyone got a good idea for what I do next?

          As the Greek philosopher Isosceles used to say, "There are 3 sides to every triangle."
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            phil.davis
            last edited by

            And if I leave the USB stick with TinyCore Linux attached to the system, it happily boots pfSense (SD card is first in the boot order) and goes all the way through the interface setup. Then I could use the webGUI, wizard, reboot - everything.
            I shutdown and removed the USB stick - now I have the mountroot problem.
            Put the USB stick back, and it boots fine.
            So the USB stick slows something down in the boot sequence that lets it work. I guess I will leave the USB stick inserted for now, while I play.

            As the Greek philosopher Isosceles used to say, "There are 3 sides to every triangle."
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              jasonlitka
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              @phil.davis:

              And if I leave the USB stick with TinyCore Linux attached to the system, it happily boots pfSense (SD card is first in the boot order) and goes all the way through the interface setup. Then I could use the webGUI, wizard, reboot - everything.
              I shutdown and removed the USB stick - now I have the mountroot problem.
              Put the USB stick back, and it boots fine.
              So the USB stick slows something down in the boot sequence that lets it work. I guess I will leave the USB stick inserted for now, while I play.

              Just out of curiosity, what happens if you use 20000 instead of 10000?

              I can break anything.

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                phil.davis
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                I moved on to the 2nd APU1C unit. Updated the firmware to 5 Apr 2014 (I like to start with the latest when testing/learning and not bother about what was wrong with old stuff)
                Installed 2.2 on SD card - pfSense-2.2-DEVELOPMENT-4g-amd64-nanobsd-20140417-0415.img.gz
                It boots fine, no mountroot issue, so no need to do any ctrl-C and magic commands.
                Assigned interfaces, then went through the webGUI wizard. I have done multiple restarts, and multiple halt, power cycle, boot sequences. Every time it has booted fine. So the timing issue does not seem to be there in FreeBSD 10/pfSense 2.2.
                Now I will go back to the 1st unit and answer the question:

                Just out of curiosity, what happens if you use 20000 instead of 10000?

                As the Greek philosopher Isosceles used to say, "There are 3 sides to every triangle."
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                  phil.davis
                  last edited by

                  Just out of curiosity, what happens if you use 20000 instead of 10000?

                  No joy, I still get the "mountroot" prompt.
                  I tried 100000 also.
                  I wonder what I am doing different to everyone else?

                  As the Greek philosopher Isosceles used to say, "There are 3 sides to every triangle."
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                    blackbird
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                    pfSense-2.2-DEVELOPMENT-4g-amd64-nanobsd-20140417-1054.img worked for me. but the 2.1.1 no 2.1.2 no joy.

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                      dotdash
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                      Make sure you are setting:
                      kern.cam.boot_delay=10000

                      I mistakenly typed it with a . instead of an _ in one post.

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                        router_wang
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                        @Jason:

                        @blackbird:

                        I cant seem to get CTRL-C to work in PUTTY. all I can get to is a mountroot>  prompt

                        Another user reported a similar issue, not likely to be user-error on both cases.

                        That was me. I tried 3 different terminal programs before I found one that would accept keyboard input. This is the first time I have ever had a problem with putty. But this is the first time I have ever used it with an actual serial cable….

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                          blackbird
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                          That did it Dotdash

                          set kern.cam.boot_delay=10000

                          then type

                          boot

                          Log in to the webgui and go to diagnostics, edit file.
                          Enter:

                          /boot/loader.conf  ( this was different for me I didn't have a  /boot/loader.conf.local)

                          at the end of the file . Then enter:

                          kern.cam.boot_delay=10000

                          Save and your done.

                          I used the pfSense-2.1.2-RELEASE-4g-amd64-nanobsd-20140410-0542.img file
                          and I used a 8G SD card
                          I had to use ZOC/Pro 6.56 terminal emulator to get it to work on windows 7 :D

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                            phil.davis
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                            @dotdash - I pasted from the original instructions early in this thread. They say boot.delay, can you edit that and make it boot_delay to help other mortals who cut-and-paste in future?

                            It worked first time when I used the correct command :)

                            As the Greek philosopher Isosceles used to say, "There are 3 sides to every triangle."
                            If I helped you, then help someone else - buy someone a gift from the INF catalog http://secure.inf.org/gifts/usd/

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                              dotdash
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                              @phil.davis:

                              @dotdash - I pasted from the original instructions early in this thread. They say boot.delay, can you edit that and make it boot_delay to help other mortals who cut-and-paste in future?

                              Sorry, I tried and it tells me that I cannot edit the topic…
                              EDIT: GruensFroeschli used his mod powers to edit the original post, so it is now correct. Danke.

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                                chsu83
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                                I think all found out the solution, but: Perhaps that helps for others
                                https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=75427.0

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