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    Issues installing on Watchguard SSL100

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      august125
      last edited by august125

      Hi everyone,

      I have a Watchguard SSL100 that I am attempting to get up and running with PFSense 2.3.5. I have a keyboard and display attached directly to the unit. When attempting to boot my 4GB SanDisk CF card which I have imaged with WinDiskImager, it hangs at the first line which is

      "BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02
      _"

      I flashed stephenw10's v8.1 BIOS as the first step, which by my understanding is derived from the SSL100 BIOS, so there should be no problem there. I attempted to revert to the backup I made of my original BIOS for troubleshooting sake but received a checksum error. I am unsure where to go from here. Any help is appreciated.

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by stephenw10

        It is booting the card since you see the BTX loader so the BIOS is doing it's thing correctly.

        If you're using a monitor connected directly then the output from that point switches to serial console. Unless you're using Nano+VGA image but you would then be the only person doing so. ๐Ÿ˜‰
        There is no default config for the sk/msk interfaces so it will waiting for you to assign them

        Hook up a serial console and go from there.

        Steve

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          august125
          last edited by

          Thank you Stephen, hooking up the serial console worked; I can now see output from the firewall. That's what I get for doing things unconventionally ๐Ÿ˜†. Unfortunately it is still not booting and is actually hanging at:

          "(ada0:ata:0:0:0:0): READ_DMA. ACB: c8 00 3f 7e 7a 40 00 00 00 00 01 00
          (ada0:ata:0:0:0:0): CAM status: Command timeout
          (ada0:ata:0:0:0:0): Retrying command"

          which it repeats ad infinitum. I assume this is some sort of corruption in my CF card. I will try re-imaging and report back.

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            Nope it's probably this:
            https://www.netgate.com/docs/pfsense/hardware/boot-troubleshooting.html?highlight=boot#pfsense-2-2-and-later

            The CF card slot in those boxes does not have the DMA pins connected, it can only do PIO mode. But if you use a UDMA capable CF card (most decent sized cards are) the OS will still see that and try to use it. Hence DMA errors.

            Steve

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