SG-1100 upgrade horror, now brick

Rico

Yeah wasnt this after U-Boot upgrade? I unplugged the device like 100 times since yesterday and left it with no power over night.
Now I also tried to boot into pfSense-plus-SG-1100-recovery-21.02-RELEASE-aarch64.img.gz and pfSense-netgate-SG-1100-recovery-2.4.5-RELEASE-p1-aarch64.img.gz but get always the same error 'No valid device tree blob found!'.

-Rico

keyser

@Rico Well, then it probably is a dead device… Sorry :-(

keyser

@Rico I’m sure you tried this as well. Stephen really knows the in’s and out’s of Netgate hardware:

https://forum.netgate.com/topic/165397/sg-1100-no-valid-tree-blob-found-after-power-cut

Rico

Well the problem is I get this error when booting the installer from USB thumb. The local MMC is empty anyway because it gets erased after 'run usbrecovery' command.

-Rico

rcoleman-netgate

@keyser said in SG-1100 upgrade horror, now brick:

No, I can’t remember where it stalled, but I think it was related to some missing U-boot update or something.

Did you open a ticket with TAC>

Rico

Yes, #1746268942 if you like to check.

-Rico

rcoleman-netgate

@Rico Yep, Let's keep digging into the ticket and see what we can come up with.

Rico

My SG-1100 is up and running again after a few more setenv commands
Thanks to all supporters!

-Rico

SteveITS

@Rico Glad to hear you got it fixed. For posterity I was going to ask if you tried a different and/or smaller USB. This thread is for a 3100 but that worked for this person:

MordyT said in After upgrade to 23.05.1, pfSense on Netgate 3100 basically dead:

Of note, you can't use just any flash drive - a 5 year old 64GB Kingston USB3.0 drive would crash during the run recovery stage and I had to dig out a 8GB USB2.0 drive for it to work.

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@keyser said in SG-1100 upgrade horror, now brick:

Wasn’t there something with the SG-1100 where it could get the hardware into a non functioning state that required you to power it off completely

You may be thinking of https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/troubleshooting/upgrades.html#segmentation-fault-in-pkg ? IIRC that was a one time thing and fixed in later updates. (edit: the driver/condition was fixed so it didn't get into that state)

stephenw10

@Rico said in SG-1100 upgrade horror, now brick:

No valid device tree blob found!
WARNING! Trying to fire up the kernel, but no device tree blob found!

That error implies it has failed to load the dtb file at boot. That means the file it tried to load wasn't present. So either it failed to access the file because it couldn't see the media or the file wasn't on the media. Or that the file it was trying to load was incorrect. The latter was the case here, the uboot env that contains the file name was wrong.

Steve