[NETGATE1100] Console port broken
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Hello, I need to reinstall the image on my netgate1100 ( related to : https://forum.netgate.com/topic/178049/pfsense-plus-23-01-updates-on-the-1100-and-2100-systems ), the problem is... my physical usb console port is totally broken so I can't use it anymore. Exist any solution to reinstall this image on the device without console port ? Or should I buy another one ? Thanks!
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Not easily. If anything is still present on the eMMC it will try to boot that unless you interrupt the process at the console.
If you hit the upgrade bug here and it's failing to boot from the eMMC because it cannot read in the loader file it will eventually try to net boot. It might be possible to setup an environment it would netboot from where the booted image has ssh enabled so you can reflash the eMMC from there. But doing that would be complex. Especially with no console to check what's happening.
Otherwise it's probably possible to flash the eMMC using jtag directly if you have the equipment to do that. I have never tried either of those though.
Steve
