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    Nokia IP1220 installation / boot issues

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      h4rri
      last edited by

      Tried the Nano install on the HDD and a flash card and it's not playing ball.

      I have a couple of spare DL380's so will use one of them instead, I wanted to use one of the Nokia's simply because of the better port density but that can't be helped.

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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        Disappointing. Did it not boot at all? Did the image write to the drive OK? You extracted it from the gzip first?

        Steve

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          h4rri
          last edited by

          I haven't given up on the Nokia [too bloody minded] yet. I've ordered a 2.5" - 3.5" IDE adaptor so I can install of sense onto the HDD so I know it's working then I'll play with the bootmgr.

          I unzipped the gzip to be left with an ISO then 'wrote' that to the HDD / CF using Win32DiskImager

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            The Nano image is not an ISO it's a .img file.

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              jdmoore0883
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              Hey Guys.

              I am trying to install pfSense on an IP260 and am experiencing a variety of issues booting. Have you made any headway on this project at all? You ever get pfSense running on that IP Appliance? I would like to know so I can see if anything done here may/may not be helpful.

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                Guest
                last edited by

                Hi h4rri,

                it is going, but Nokia was changing often during the entire production phase the platforms
                likes mainboard and cpu! So sometimes it is going on and sometimes not!

                pfsense Install on Nokia IP390 with success

                I get my Nokia IP560 next month, 16 x GB LAN Ports 1 x Aux 1 x RJ45 Console Port
                4 x 1 GB DDR2 RAM

                • Industrial CFCard 4 GB from Transcend
                • 2,5" IDE SSD 80 GB
                • Soekris vpn1411 if miniPCI slot is in

                I have a Nokia IP1220 on which I am trying to install pfsense v2.2

                Try another version under 2.2.1 perhaps an older version I mean!

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                  h4rri
                  last edited by

                  Hi,

                  The pfsense install works in the PC I installed the HDD in.

                  The issue is getting IPSO to boot to the pfsense install :(

                  Still plugging away though.

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                    h4rri
                    last edited by

                    Dragging this up from the depths, to offer an update.

                    I have been scouring the instructions for the IP and trying to fathom how to modify the boot loader of it.

                    It transpires I have failed in the most basic way, when I opened the chassis the 'right way' I discovered the CF card holding the IPSO boot loader. As such I should be able to replace this with a CF card containing LILO / Grub.

                    I have gleaned that a standard lilo contains:

                    boot=/dev/hda
                    map=/boot/map
                    install=/boot/boot.b
                    compact
                    image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36
                        label=linux
                        root=/dev/hda2
                        read-only

                    My issue is that I have no idea what partitions are used by default in the installation. I will boot the installation from the a PC tonight but if anyone can save me the cumbersome job by detailing the partitions that would be appreciated.

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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                      last edited by

                      I bit late replying here!
                      If it has a CF card slot the first thing to try is just writing a Nano image to the CF card and boot that. Make sure you use the correct image, probably no VGA port on that so don't use the Nano+VGA image.

                      Steve

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                        hammaskejju
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                        Hi everyone!

                        I'm also interested of getting pfSense to run in IP1220.

                        I have had a lot of problems with my current firewall. I'm running pfSense in an old Intel based computer, which is equipped with 500 MHz Pentium. This is kind of slow hardware for running pfSense and VPN's.

                        Today I dug out the old Nokia IP1220. If this old hardware is capable of running pfSense, this would be the best solution for to be  my next firewall.
                        Therefore I would be glad to get any possible information of this matter.
                        I don't have any of the HDD:s, there's only two empty slots. I also have no idea, if there is suitable drivers in pfSense for the LAN cardrs.

                        All I know, there's a CF card installed in the mainboard. This is my only option for installing the pfSense.

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                          h4rri
                          last edited by

                          You can run an instance from the CF card, I wanted to use the HDD's [they are normal 2.5" IDE drives] so this is the cause of the extra issues I am experiencing.

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                          • stephenw10S
                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                            last edited by

                            Write a Nano image to a CF card and boot it see what happens.
                            I imagine this is 32bit so try this: http://files.atx.pfsense.org/mirror/downloads/pfSense-2.2.6-RELEASE-1g-i386-nanobsd.img.gz

                            Extract and write it as described here: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Writing_Disk_Images

                            Check the serial console.

                            Steve

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                              hammaskejju
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                              At first, everything looked fine. I could see the boot started up fine.
                              Then suddenly the following came up:

                              "panic: atpic_assign_cpu: bad cookie pfsense"

                              I tried to find a solution for this, but coldn't find any.  I tried different CF card, and I couldn't repeat this "panic". However, I could see the same result with the different CF card.
                              Befor the panic, there is repetitively going the following lines:

                              (ada0:ata0:0:0:0): Error 5, Retries exhausted
                              (ada0:ata0:0:0:0): READ_DMA. ACB: c8 00 df 0d 1e 40 00 00 00 00 01 00
                              (ada0:ata0:0:0:0): CAM status: Command timeout
                              (ada0:ata0:0:0:0): Retrying command
                              (ada0:ata0:0:0:0): READ_DMA. ACB: c8 00 df 0d 1e 40 00 00 00 00 01 00
                              It looks like the DMA transfer is broken etc.

                              Then I found an old 1 GB CF-card, which was installed in an old WatchGuard Firebox II. This has some old version of pfSense (perhaps 2.2.2 )
                              This CF booted ok. I could see all the network interface cards, and I could see they were working.
                              Wen I got the system working, I did the automatic upgrade from the web configuration page (Invoke auto update).

                              After this the boot failed again witht the same problem as earlier.

                              So, I begin to think, if there is some kind of workaround or solution for this. I wouldn't want to use any old version, if newer is available with some tweaking etc.
                              I just don't have any glue on how to proceed with this…

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                                hammaskejju
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                                I can not boot the pfSense.
                                I have went through the "Boot issues" documentation and tried to find a solution with my friend Google. However, I'm stuck in booting.
                                The pfSense version 2.1.5 is the last version which works and boots fine. When installing newer version, the boot fails.

                                I have tried to disable the DMA, cachec etc. which was decripted in "Boot issues" documentation. However, none of these helped me solve the problem.
                                This is really frustrating, since I know the hardware works fine, the hardware is quite powerfull, but can only be used as a firewall.

                                Is there any workaround? Any way to alter the booting mechanism?

                                I also have two IDE slots, but the connector looks weird. I don't know where to find suitable disk or disk tray for this.

                                I would be so glad to get some solution for this!

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