SG-5100 Boot loop

bharlequin

Hello

Anyone ever had a boot loop with netgate sg-5100?

stephenw10

You need to see the first part of the loop where it shows the kernel panic to see why it's looping.

If it loops at ~30s intervals though it's probably a file system issue in which case:

Running a file system consistency check:

1. Reboot your pfSense firewall and boot into Single User Mode by pressing '2' at the loader menu. It will boot to a question asking for a path to the shell, just press return to reach the # prompt.

2. At the # prompt run the following command:
 /sbin/fsck -y /

 Run the fsck command at least 3 times; Repeat the command until no errors are reported, even  if fsck claims the filesystem has been marked "clean".

3. Reboot by running: /sbin/reboot

 It should boot normally and with no residual long term issues

Steve

bharlequin

@stephenw10

Thanks stephenw10 your method did work

Keep it up