<![CDATA[SG-1000 bricked and recovered]]>Had not updated my firewall for a while - it's for home.  Updated through WebUI.  After reboot, firewall did not come back.  After waiting for several minutes, I did the (shudder) unplug/plug routine.  I did not check the console before I did this. The version was probably about 3-4 months old.

The console was displaying /bin/sh not found.  I tried a number of troubleshooting options but could not get to a prompt to run fsck.

So, I managed to jump through the re-install hoops, got the unit booted, and got the config restored.

If you don't have some kind of config backup setup, do it now.  It just saved my bacon.

I realize it's possible the filesystem got corrupted on the initial unplug.  I've never had that happen with a pfsense unit before though…

FYI

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/topic/125958/sg-1000-bricked-and-recoveredRSS for NodeWed, 22 Apr 2026 14:16:11 GMTFri, 19 Jan 2018 05:32:37 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to SG-1000 bricked and recovered on Fri, 19 Jan 2018 15:00:19 GMT]]>So – the next thing I'm looking to add now is an external logging setup so that if I have issues, I can get logs about what happened at least.

Any suggestions for this would be welcome.

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