Failure to write ISO to USB
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Try a CD with the CD image, the memstick image will not work on a CD/DVD.
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pfSense-CE-memstick-2.3.4-RELEASE-amd64.img = 709,894,144 bytes?
Rufus 2.9 had no problem to read this
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@kpa:
Try a CD with the CD image, the memstick image will not work on a CD/DVD.
CD did the magic. Booted, but getting tons of errors. Starting debugging all over again but at least I get an error! Better something that nothing!
pfSense-CE-memstick-2.3.4-RELEASE-amd64.img = 709,894,144 bytes?
Rufus 2.9 had no problem to read this
Exactly that size. Tried on 2.12 and 2.14 versions, none of them worked. Wrote successfully but wouldn't boot!
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For anyone interested.
CD did the work for me, no errors at all.Consider this closed. Thank you all for helping out. :)
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Not to beat a dead horse but pfSense-CE-2.3.4-RELEASE-amd64.iso mounted properly on Fedora 25 out of the box.
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Not to beat a dead horse but pfSense-CE-2.3.4-RELEASE-amd64.iso mounted properly on Fedora 25 out of the box.
I was able to mount the .iso on both Ubuntu and Windows. I wasn't able though to get a USB stick working properly. That's the part I wasn't able to figure out - not much to work with.
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Not to beat a dead horse but pfSense-CE-2.3.4-RELEASE-amd64.iso mounted properly on Fedora 25 out of the box.
The ISO image is readable on just about anything because it uses the standard ISO9660 filesystem. The memory stick image on the other hand uses a very unusual partitioning and the UFS filesystem that is only readable on FreeBSD and derivatives unless a special driver is used.
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pfSense-CE-memstick-2.3.4-RELEASE-amd64.img mounts properly on Fedora 25 out of the box also
mount -t ufs -o ufstype=ufs2,ro /dev/sdb4 /mnt/bsd
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Are you able to boot from any other USB flash drive (Windows/Linux etc.)? If not then probably BIOS settings need to be changed to enable booting from legacy devices. And also perhaps change the boot order and/or use the boot menu function key.
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I think i have a quite similar problem but this time i try to get it work with virtual box. it cant work with a hyperviser?, but from my view of the iso image file for the 64 bit version is not readable when i try to configure with virtual optical storage in the vbox settings.
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I created a BSD 64 bit vm in Virtualbox 5.1 and set pfSense-CE-2.3.4-RELEASE-amd64.iso as CD storage. It booted without any problems.
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you use win32diskimager burning file "pfSense-CE-memstick-2.3.4-RELEASE-amd64.img". 100% success!
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use 7 zip to extract the iso
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I had this issue before. My problem was when I wrote 64bit image to CF card and try to boot on 32bit system. There is no output indicating compatibility issue. It just stuck on bios screen. Got mad, thought pfSense was issue or my system was not reading the CF card. Or image never wrote to CF card. Put CF card back on computer and saw files on the CF card.
Vs when installing from CD/DVD the 64bit image will prompt error that 32bit system does not support long version.
Learned after several trial and error, the error was on my end. Ensure you downloaded the 32bit CF version for 32bit system. Ensure you downloaded the correct version for your system.
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