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    APU Install troubles

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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      miesterio
      last edited by

      Ok, I'm trying to upgrade from 2.4.5 to something newer to see if it solves an intermittent wan drop. I have a Netgate APUD-30GB appliance.
      I've tried pfSense-CE-memstick-ADI-2.7.0-RELEASE-amd64,pfSense-CE-memstick-serial-2.7.0-RELEASE-amd64.img and all versions below those that you can still download from the pfsense.org website. I reboot my appliance, make sure it attempts to boot to my USB drive (I have 3 I've tried all with the same result). It stops at the line of "GRUB loading." I've left it there for 10 minutes. I can't update from the console, from the shell, or the webgui. I'm submitted a ticket, but I appear to be stuck in a circular response loop.

      Has anyone had this problem? What did you do to fix it?

      Thanks.

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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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        The pfSense installer does not boot using grub, so that message wouldn't be coming from pfSense.

        Are you sure the USB drive is being written correctly? Or maybe the device isn't actually attempting to boot from the USB drive.

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          miesterio @jimp
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          @jimp

          It was DD. sudo dd if=pfSense-CE-memstick-serial-2.7.0-RELEASE-amd64.img of=/dev/sdb1 bs=4M status=progress yielded a usb stick that was unusable.

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          • jimpJ
            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
            last edited by

            Probably since you used sdb1 and not sdb. That is a full disk image so must be written to the disk directly.

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