Watchguard M200/M300

[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 ?

[stephenw10]

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 guides/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

[federov]

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

[stephenw10]

XTM5 or M500?

Either will run pfSense fine, yes.

Steve

[federov]

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