My XTM 505 does not start with pfsense
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First: the original Watchguard CF card starts ok. It boots and I can see the load-indicator on the lcd and see which partition I want to start from the CF card over the serial connection.
With pfSense I get to
"Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ufs/pfSense [ro]…
Configuring cras"yes, it stops exactly at "cras" - not crash".
What is wrong? I have the 64 bit nanobsd image on the flash, a 4Gig Kingston. I have rebooted 50 times, I have also reflashed the cf card twice - even tried the memstick-version, but same issue always.
Also, I have issues with the terminal input, I am using cu from Linux and my keyboard does no work over the serial connection. My cable is a Cisco - probably a chinese cheap replica but the rs232 connector is branded with cisco systems and cisco logo anyway - so it might be genuine also.
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If I wait a minute or so I can see "fxp0: link state changed to DOWN" and then complete silence. If I hook up the firewall to any active gear, the same line reads "UP", and the network light starts to flicker. But nothing on the serial.
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First: the original Watchguard CF card starts ok. It boots and I can see the load-indicator on the lcd and see which partition I want to start from the CF card over the serial connection.
With pfSense I get to
"Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ufs/pfSense [ro]…
Configuring cras"yes, it stops exactly at "cras" - not crash".
What is wrong? I have the 64 bit nanobsd image on the flash, a 4Gig Kingston. I have rebooted 50 times, I have also reflashed the cf card twice - even tried the memstick-version, but same issue always.
Also, I have issues with the terminal input, I am using cu from Linux and my keyboard does no work over the serial connection. My cable is a Cisco - probably a chinese cheap replica but the rs232 connector is branded with cisco systems and cisco logo anyway - so it might be genuine also.
I can make my two XTM 5 do the same. Can you try using putty and change the keyboard function key to VT400. I would also wait for a bit before opening the console. The boot up sequence seems to hangs if you watch it.
Are you using a USB to serial adaptor? I have several machines with pure serial ports and the XTM console will crash at exactly the same point on certain machines. On other desktops it works fine.
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Hope you speak German.. But VT100 is probably a better choice. Look and see if any of the graphics here help..
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I have on old Dell purely for the purpose of having a real RS-port - because presumably that is better than converters. Perhaps not then.
You are making good points - although I have tried putty and minicom, I have only run them from linux shell which is not where I usually use putty - so configuring it is something I'm not directly familiar with. I will have a go at this anyway. Also, opening the console "after a bit" is something I have not tried.
I don't speak german but I quite fluently read it :) so I will visit that link.
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If I wait a minute or so I can see "fxp0: link state changed to DOWN" and then complete silence. If I hook up the firewall to any active gear, the same line reads "UP", and the network light starts to flicker. But nothing on the serial.
Do you use Port 0 or port 1 as WAN ?
pfSense assigns by default Port 1 as WAN and Port 2 as LAN, because these are Gigabit.
Port 0 is only 100Mbps.Also, do you use the normal version 4Gb Kingston CF card (Green/black label with pink flower) ?
If so, this card is extremely slow.
Best is to use a High Speed CF card.Grtz
DeLorean
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Not sure how either of these would affect my bootsequence getting stuck on no output on the serial?
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Sounds exactly like you're using the Nano VGA image not the Nano Serial image.
'Trying to mount root' is the last thing shown on both consoles before t switches to the primary console only. Except the interface UP/Down messages which also appear on both.Make sure you;re using a serial image such as this one:
https://atxfiles.pfsense.org/mirror/downloads/pfSense-CE-2.3.4-RELEASE-4g-amd64-nanobsd.img.gzSteve
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I've tried both nano serial as well as memstick serial. On different CF-cards.
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Have you installed a hard drive yet?
I have just upgraded another one and used the full install installed on a 4gb cf card to install directly to SSD.
If I get trouble I try the following:
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Insert CF Card
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Plug in console cable
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Load up terminal software, and set port speed to 115200 etc. In putty set keyboard type to VT100 (VT400 also does work)
Do not connect to the port just yet -
Power on XTM
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Wait for POST beep
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Watch HDD activty light
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Connect to com port
You should now get an output on the console.
I have several desktops that have serial ports and they usually work fine, but the problem you get I can replicate exactly when I use the serial port on my HP Laptop.
I have no USB convertors all my connections are RS232.Perhaps not all serial ports are created equal.
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Incidentally this is an HP laptop.
