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      Smoothrunnings
      last edited by

      Sorry I meant to ask, if I want to use the 4GB card to install pfsense onto a hard drive, do I need to do anything different?

      There is a video on YT that explains how to do what you just said minus the bios version change. But this unit came with the a 80GB HD and caddy which was never used apparently. I can also add an HD to the x1250e I got.

      Thanks,

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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        If you flash the installer image onto the compact flash you should be able to boot from that and install to the HD. You might need to switch the boot order around perhaps but maybe not if there isn't anything bootable on the HD already.

        Steve

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          Smoothrunnings
          last edited by

          @stephenw10:

          If you flash the installer image onto the compact flash you should be able to boot from that and install to the HD. You might need to switch the boot order around perhaps but maybe not if there isn't anything bootable on the HD already.

          Steve

          Good to know!

          Thanks Stephen

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            Smoothrunnings
            last edited by

            @stephenw10:

            If you flash the installer image onto the compact flash you should be able to boot from that and install to the HD. You might need to switch the boot order around perhaps but maybe not if there isn't anything bootable on the HD already.

            Steve

            Hi Stephen,

            Something did run across my mind after I replied.

            With your version of the bios do I need go into the bios and change the first IDE port to support the 4GB CF card? The video I watched talks about using the firmware off the freedos image from pfsense and going into the bios, setting the pri IDE to manual and setting the heads to 2 so that the 4GB CF card works.

            Thanks,

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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              If you are using version 8 there is no longer any need to do that. It should boot any size CF cards or most HDs with the default auto settings.

              See: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=20095.msg383842#msg383842

              What? You didn't read all 119 pages in that thread?  :P

              (but you actually want version 8.1 as I forgot to unhide a menu)

              Steve

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                Smoothrunnings
                last edited by

                @stephenw10:

                If you are using version 8 there is no longer any need to do that. It should boot any size CF cards or most HDs with the default auto settings.

                See: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=20095.msg383842#msg383842

                What? You didn't read all 119 pages in that thread?  :P

                (but you actually want version 8.1 as I forgot to unhide a menu)

                Steve

                I have the 8.1 file from Alup who was kind enough to link (above). :)

                I haven't ready all 119, maybe half. Just not he half that offered me anything. :)

                Thanks,
                Andrew

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                  Smoothrunnings
                  last edited by

                  @Smoothrunnings:

                  Sorry I meant to ask, if I want to use the 4GB card to install pfsense onto a hard drive, do I need to do anything different?

                  There is a video on YT that explains how to do what you just said minus the bios version change. But this unit came with the a 80GB HD and caddy which was never used apparently. I can also add an HD to the x1250e I got.

                  Thanks,

                  What version of PFSense works on the X1250e? I get an error that the CPU doesn't support long mode.

                  Do I need to upgrade the CPU to something else?

                  Thanks,

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                    Smoothrunnings
                    last edited by

                    I figured out I need 32bit.

                    After installing 32bit to the 4GB card and booting it.. It seems to be getting stuck after

                    ada0: Previously was known as ad0
                    Timeoutcounter "TSC" frequency 1300073528 Hz quality 800.

                    Any ideas?

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                      Smoothrunnings
                      last edited by

                      This is what I get…

                      ada0 at ata0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
                      ada0: <xmore industrial="" xm-cf-4g0-xic52s(f)="" 081107s4="">ATA-5 device
                      ada0: Serial Number 20110127AAAA80001666
                      ada0: 33.300MB/s transfers (UDMA2, PIO 512bytes)
                      ada0: 4009MB (8211168 512 byte sectors)
                      ada0: Previously was known as ad0
                      Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1300075101 Hz quality 800
                      (ada0:ata0:0:0:0): READ_DMA. ACB: c8 00 df 4a 7d 40 00 00 00 00 01 00
                      (ada0:ata0:0:0:0): CAM status: Command timeout
                      (ada0:ata0:0:0:0): Retrying command
                      ada0 at ata0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
                      ada0: <xmore industrial="" xm-cf-4g0-xic52s(f)="" 081107s4="">s/n 20110127AAAA80001666 detached
                      (ada0:ata0:0:0:0): Periph destroyed
                      Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ufs/pfSense [ro]…
                      mountroot: waiting for device /dev/ufs/pfSense ...
                      Mounting from ufs:/dev/ufs/pfSense failed with error 19.

                      Loader variables:
                        vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/ufs/pfSense
                        vfs.root.mountfrom.options=ro

                      Manual root filesystem specification:
                        <fstype>: <device>[options]
                            Mount <device>using filesystem <fstype>and with the specified (optional) option list.

                      eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a
                              zfs:tank
                              cd9660:/dev/acd0 ro
                                (which is equivalent to: mount -t cd9660 -o ro /dev/acd0 /)

                      ?              List valid disk boot devices
                        .              Yield 1 second (for background tasks)
                        <empty line="">    Abort manual input

                      mountroot> Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1300075101 Hz quality 800
                      Invalid file system specification.

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

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                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                        last edited by

                        What file systems does it list if you type ? there?

                        Steve

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                          Smoothrunnings
                          last edited by

                          @stephenw10:

                          What file systems does it list if you type ? there?

                          Steve

                          Hey Steve,

                          When I type ? it just says List of GEOM managed disk devices: and nothing appears under them.

                          Thanks

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                          • stephenw10S
                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                            last edited by

                            Ah, sorry missed that error. You probably need to disable DMA for that card:

                            https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Boot_Troubleshooting#pfSense_2.2_and_later

                            The CF card slot does not have the pins required for DMA but the card reports it's DMA capable and so tries to use it.

                            Steve

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                              Smoothrunnings
                              last edited by

                              @stephenw10:

                              Ah, sorry missed that error. You probably need to disable DMA for that card:

                              https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Boot_Troubleshooting#pfSense_2.2_and_later

                              The CF card slot does not have the pins required for DMA but the card reports it's DMA capable and so tries to use it.

                              Steve

                              Hi Steve,

                              OK so that's interesting because I have Block Mode enabled, DMA disabled, PIO mode Auto, and UDMA modes disabled in the bios.

                              Since the CF card doesn't have the pins. If I was to go out and buy a non-generic card (this one is from China…it worked fine in my XTM 510 oddly), and buy something like a Kingston 16GB CF card would that resolve this problem and would the 8.1 bois support the 16GB CF card?

                              Thanks,

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                                Smoothrunnings
                                last edited by

                                There is a second problem, but it might also be related the CF.

                                When I had the 80GB IDE HD plugged the system would hang at the timecounter message. Again I am not sure if it related to the CF card or not or if the HD is possibly has something on. The previous ower told me the drive was never used but who knows really, it a FOR 320 caddy and the drive could have come out of some old laptop with Windows XP on it for all I know.

                                I can say the HD doesn't show up in the bios when I have it plugged in with the CF card, so its possible that its NFG.

                                Thanks,

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                                • stephenw10S
                                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                  last edited by

                                  I think the FreeBSD driver ignores the BIOS reports. You can see from the error it's trying to use use DMA.

                                  It's the card slot that doesn't have the pins, the CF card itself probably is UDMA capable and reports it correctly. The slot in the XTM is newer and may well support UDMA I don't recall off hand.

                                  I would expect the BIOS to support a 16GB card though I've never tried anything larger than 4GB myself. The CF card just appears as another IDE drive.

                                  It's possible both are set as master. You may need to set the HD as slave or cable select to boot with both in place.

                                  Steve

                                  P.S. You should try to avoid quoting an entire previous post in your reply it makes the thread far larger than it needs to be. In fact you can just reply without quoting when you are just referring to the post above.

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                                    Smoothrunnings
                                    last edited by

                                    What do you suggest I do with respect to getting pfsense installed on this x1250e?

                                    Use another CF card not? Not sure what you are suggesting in your response.

                                    Thanks,

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                                    • stephenw10S
                                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                      last edited by

                                      Interrupt the the boot at the loader and enter:

                                      set hint.ata.0.mode=PIO4
                                      
                                      boot
                                      

                                      Then edit the loader file once it's booted successfully like it shows here:
                                      https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Boot_Troubleshooting#pfSense_2.2_and_later

                                      That should allow that card to boot.

                                      Steve

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                                        Smoothrunnings
                                        last edited by

                                        Thanks Steve

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