XG-7100 Not Starting up
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Are you able to connect via the console?
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you probably have a corrupted filesystem, connect to the console
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/hardware/troubleshooting-disk-check-errors-fsck.html
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Thanks guys I'll try it out, was in a bit of freak out mode for a bit, but I found my previous firewall and it was still configured so I got my network back up. I'll try connecting to the console now. At first I was like but there is no console port! but then I noticed that already had a cable plugged into it.
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Yeah it seems to be stuck in some kind of a boot loop. I was able to press escape to get into the boot menu. it says boot: now. not sure what it wants me to enter.
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you don't see the menu where you can boot in sigle user mode?
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I saw that at one point. I'll try and restart it again and see of I can catch it there
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Yeah I stopped the boot process at the wrong spot the first time, the second time I stopped it at the right spot and was able to log into the box.
I did the following:
fsck -y /
** /dev/gptid/83e91e45-63a8-11e8-8a54-0008a20ea7dd
USE JOURNAL? yes
** SU+J Recovering /dev/gptid/83e91e45-63a8-11e8-8a54-0008a20ea7dd
** Reading 33554432 byte journal from inode 4.RECOVER? yes
** Building recovery table.
** Resolving unreferenced inode list.
** Processing journal entries.WRITE CHANGES? yes
** 35 journal records in 2048 bytes for 54.69% utilization
** Freed 0 inodes (0 dirs) 4 blocks, and 2 frags.***** FILE SYSTEM MARKED CLEAN *****
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oh I missed the part of the doc that said to keep using that command until it stopped correcting problems, so I ran it a few more times, looks like it is booting now. Woot!
Will have to plug it all back in to verify but I think it's back.
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Humm. I have it plugged all back in and it seems to be working. I can access it's we admin page but it's gateway status is "pending" and I don't have internet on any of my devices plugged into it.
I have a cable modem and when I look at my WAN interface it shows my public IP address.
Pinging and DNS lookup don't hit any outside domains or ip addresses.
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Ok I messed up some DNS settings. All better now.
