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      federov
      last edited by federov

      Hi!

      I've got an M300 , it uses sd-card as main drive cant find any sataports.
      I've tried installing from usb and sd-card.

      I also tried as described here: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/140213/pfsense-on-watchguard-m370/23

      "I managed to get the live CD image installed via VMWare USB passthrough to the mSATA adapter with a GPT partition scheme (should it be MBR instead?), then installed the drive in the M370. "

      ie I plugged in the sd card and used as disk in vmware, istalled from iso and tried booting the watchguard.
      It never boots no matter what I try. Any tips ?
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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        I split this into a new topic as the M300 is completely different hardware to the M370.

        The Watchguard M200 and M300 are ARM/PowerPC architecture and not x86. As such they cannot run pfSense at this time.
        See: https://www.watchguard.com/help/docs/hardware%20guides/Firebox_M200_M300_Hardware_Guide.pdf
        And: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QorIQ#T2

        You might be able to get OpenWRT running there if there is some existing platform sufficiently close. Otherwise it would require some porting effort.

        Steve

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          federov
          last edited by

          ok, thanks.
          Also have an old xtm500 lying around. Probably easier going for that device then by the sound of it ?

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            XTM5 or M500? 😉

            Either will run pfSense fine, yes.

            Steve

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              federov @stephenw10
              last edited by federov

              @stephenw10
              yes, just realised my typo. xtm5 :)
              Thank you, will go for that one instead.

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