can't find '/etc/hostid' /boot/entropy size=0x1000
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@bigmtl I am trying to reload a SG-4860 via usb stick. Everything for the install finished and I'm able to do some configuring by hand....but after I started to restore the configuration from an "identical" machine the rebuilt one starts "hanging" right after the title msg. TURNS OUT it isn't actually hung as by accident I left the machine alone for several minutes and found that it had come up and the web interface was alive and working as was the router functionality that had been setup. What was happening is at the point the machine appeared to freeze, it was actually that the console USB Serial port is somehow becoming disabled and no more I/O happens until I reboot. This only starts once I start to import the previous config so further investigation may show what part of the config causes the problem.
Does anyone have any ideas? The twin brother machine's console from which I'm importing the backed up config seems to work fine. -
@handymandm hostid is required for ZFS. It seems to be a defect. workaround below
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/141691/defect-etc-rc-d-hostid-file-for-zfs-not-generated-from-uuid/4?_=1669295521699 -
@4o4rh
This just happened to me when trying to install latest pfsense to a iKoolcore R2max.
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Most systems will show that error at boot because there is no uuid passed by the BIOS. It's harmless though, you shouldn't need to do anything.
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@stephenw10
not entirely harmless: it failed to continue booting. After install, the reboot hung right after printing the message about /etc/hostid.
I then rebooted in single user mode, created /etc/hostid as described in the link mentioned earlier in this thread, only then did it reboot normally. -
I've never seen that. That was in a current version? Net installer?
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@stephenw10
Yes, latest net installer, purchased (for USD 0) from netgate two days ago.
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Hmm, what error did you see when trying to install ZFS before setting a hostid?
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@stephenw10 I didn't notice any errors during the setup process
(pfSense CE, ZFS, GPT, stripe, nda0). At the end I rebooted it, and then it hung. -
Ah so it just fails to boot the install without a valid hostid? Does it hang exactly at the hostid error?
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@stephenw10 IIRC the message about the missing /etc/hostid was the last message before the hang (I neglected to make a screenshot).
