APU2 boot fail (Resolved)

hda

Struggling with resolving this. Do not know how to get this to boot again.

PCEngines apu2
coreboot build 20160311
4080 MB ECC DRAM

SeaBIOS (version ?-20160311_005214-0c3a223c2ee6)
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Skip USB. (Some) APU2's have issues with it.
Looking at your firmware, you should be successfull with booting from SD or mSata.
Best like install a mSata, prepare a SD with writing a pfSense-image on it.
Boot. Install to mSata.

Jailer

I just set up my APU2C4 today and it would not install from the USB 3 port. It would boot from USB but it wouldn't finish the install. I had to hook up a usb 2 dongle to the internal USB header and boot from it to complete the installation to the msata drive.

Either figure out a way to boot from usb2 or do as @hda has suggested and get a msata drive. They're cheap for a small one.

kapara

This is an existing firewall which stopped working. Not a new install.

Jailer

Best guess, unless someone has a bit more knowledge, is your boot device is corrupt. I hope you have your config backed up.

doktornotor

Well there's nothing to debug here, do a new install. It won't boot without kernel.

kapara

Yes was corrupt. Used this (http://www.ufsexplorer.com/) to browse the card but just garbage. Replaced for now. Had so many issues with the APU2. Nervous about using this device!

Jailer

@kapara:

Yes was corrupt. Used this (http://www.ufsexplorer.com/) to browse the card but just garbage.

So you had a compact flash card die? With the price of SSD's so low why would you bother with compact flash?

kapara

No it was a 16gb msata SSD that came from pcengines

Jailer

How long was it in service and did you have TRIM enabled?

kapara

Yes I had trim enabled. In-service for about six months.

doktornotor

That was the one sold by PC Engines? The initial revisions were completely broken.

kapara

Yes pcengines. Think I will be moving to supermicro platform. All my supermicro systems have had zero failures.

doktornotor

I meant the SSD… Supermicro won't exactly help with a faulty SSD.

kapara

ok. Maybe my issue that pfsense support though was the MB of the pcengines was really the ssd? or maybe both for this system.

db:0:kdb.enter.default> bt
Tracing pid 3499 tid 100150 td 0xfffff8006a6834b0
kdb_enter() at kdb_enter+0x3e/frame 0xfffffe012113f730
vpanic() at vpanic+0x146/frame 0xfffffe012113f770
panic() at panic+0x43/frame 0xfffffe012113f7d0
pmap_remove_pages() at pmap_remove_pages+0x736/frame 0xfffffe012113f8b0
vmspace_exit() at vmspace_exit+0x9c/frame 0xfffffe012113f8f0
exit1() at exit1+0x65f/frame 0xfffffe012113f980
sys_sys_exit() at sys_sys_exit+0xe/frame 0xfffffe012113f990
amd64_syscall() at amd64_syscall+0x40f/frame 0xfffffe012113fab0
Xfast_syscall() at Xfast_syscall+0xfb/frame 0xfffffe012113fab0
–- syscall (1, FreeBSD ELF64, sys_sys_exit), rip = 0x8008fa14a, rsp = 0x7fffffffec48, rbp = 0x7fffffffec60 ---

panic: bad pte va 8008a2000 pte 0
cpuid = 1
KDB: enter: panic