Configuration being lost on reboot whether stored on floppy or usb drive

netnerd

I know from reading previous posts this has been addressed before and apparently resolved so I assume it must be something unique to my configuration or something I don't understand even after reading the same posts over and over:

hardware: Dell Poweredge 1650, Perc Raid with Raid 0 and hot spare, cdrom, floppy, usb stick

version: 1.2.2

To prepare for the event that all three drives in my array fail before being swapped I have repeatedly attempted the following to have a good configuration stored on a usb drive or floppy to boot into:

1. removed all hard drives and boot from live cd with either a floppy in the drive or a usb drive attached (not both at the same time).

2. Select option 98 to store a backup config on the appropriate device recognized during boot.

3. set the lan interface and created a simple working configuration from the webgui

4. reboot from the webgui

When pfsense comes back up I get a network mismatch error and I am again required to set the interfaces. The rest of the configiguration is lost. I verified this by checking the mount point, shutting down and checking the removables on another machine.

From reading another post I know there was some confusion about how this feature was supposed to be used i.e. it doesn't work in conjunction with a hard disk install but I think I am using it as intended.

Hopefully somebody sees something obvious I am doing wrong or knows of a known issue with my hardware?

Thanks in advance.

Sensehans

I've got the same problem with version 1.2.2. Any solutions?
After any reboot the system reportes an interface error with a third network device listed that is definetley not installed.
Tried mOnOwall before and no such error was reported. Tried different USB Memory sticks from 512MB to 1GB.

wallabybob

What network device?

What is the error message?

Have you tried one of the 1.2.3 snapshot builds? They include a more recent version of FreeBSD which is known to have fixed a number of hardware related problems. The snapshot builds can be downloaded from http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD_RELENG_7_2/pfSense_RELENG_1_2/livecd_installer/

Sensehans

Interfaces:
Extern: D-Link DFE-528TX FAST ETHERNET PCI ADAPTER with Realtek RTL8139 Chipset
Onboard:VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter probably with VIA VT8378 Chipsatz. Not very actual chipsets pfsense should handle them.
Also tested with two PCI cards (Onboard disabled). Same failure!

I didn't tried a snapshot because I need a stable system. Fallback to mOnOwall was successful. I think this problem occours because the BSD used by pfsense is an older version. If I can spend some time I will try a snapshot.

hioctane21

I'm having the same exact issue. I tried the newer snapshot version 1.2.3. Also tried modifying /boot/device.hints and added hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" and burn a modded iso. The liveCD seems to be reading the config.xml file but I'm getting

Initializing............................ls: *.xml: Invalid argument

Then comes up with the "Network interface mismatch – Running interface assignement option."

Can any one help?

Sensehans

Sorry there seems to be no solution at this time. Try Monowall. For my system it works fine. I will use it until there is a bug fix or other hints for a solution.
Regards Hans