Boot environment on plus

SteveITS

@JonathanLee I think you’re looking for this: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/backup/zfsbe/loader.html

JonathanLee

Thanks, I have seen this except my 2100 does not show a bootloader screen like this. It just starts I have an option to escape to get to the marvel prompt but that's it. How do I access this bootloader splash screen?

SteveITS

@JonathanLee it doesn’t show the menu when pfSense boots? The Marvell prompt shows if the boot is stopped via keypress such as per https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/solutions/netgate-2100/reinstall-pfsense.html

It’s been a while but the menu should show during boot for a few seconds.

JonathanLee

@SteveITS I am using the console cable to log into it.

Gertjan

@JonathanLee said in Boot environment on plus:

Thanks, I have seen this except my 2100 does not show a bootloader screen like this

Give yourself some more time.
Open /boot/loader.conf (or /boot/loader.conf.local) and look for

autoboot_delay="3"

edit "3" for something bigger.

stephenw10

Yup the loader menu/prompt is after the uboot (marvel>> prompt) option.

JonathanLee

It never shows it this is what I see with the console cable non ssh

Screenshot 2023-11-27 at 11.40.18 AM.jpg

The console does not have that boot splash screen like it would with SSH

stephenw10

That's a long way past the loader prompt. There is some output missing here because the screen overwrites but this is where you should interrupt it:

Model: Silicom Rogue-2
Net:   eth0: neta@30000 [PRIME], eth1: neta@40000
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0 
Setting bus to 1
** No partition table - mmc 0 **

Reset SCSI
scanning bus for devices...
Bus 0
  Device 0: (0:0) Vendor: ATA Prod.: ATP M.2 2242 Rev: P111
            Type: Hard Disk
            Capacity: 60416.0 MB = 59.0 GB (123731968 x 512)
    18022   armada-3720-netgate-1100.dtb
    18022   armada-3720-sg1100.dtb
    12944   armada-3720-netgate-2100.dtb
    12944   armada-3720-sg2100.dtb

4 file(s), 0 dir(s)

12944 bytes read in 3 ms (4.1 MiB/s)
853460 bytes read in 20 ms (40.7 MiB/s)
## Starting EFI application at 01000000 ...
Scanning disk sdhci@d8000.blk...
Scanning disk ahci_scsi.id0lun0...
Found 5 disks

   _ __  / _|___  ___ _ __  ___  ___      _                
  | '_ \| |_/ __|/ _ \ '_ \/ __|/ _ \   _| |_              
  | |_) |  _\__ \  __/ | | \__ \  __/  |_   _|             
  | .__/|_| |___/\___|_| |_|___/\___|    |_|               
  |_|                                                      
                                                           
                                                                             
+---- Welcome to Netgate pfSense Plus ----+      __________________________  
|                                         |     /                       ___\ 
|  1. Boot Multi user [Enter]             |    |                      /`     
|  2. Boot Single user                    |    |                     /    :-|
|  3. Escape to loader prompt             |    |      _________  ___/    /_ |
|  4. Reboot                              |    |    /` ____   / /__    ___/ |
|  5. Cons: Dual (Serial primary)         |    |   /  /   /  /    /   /     |
|                                         |    |  /  /___/  /    /   /      |
|  Options:                               |    | /   ______/    /   /  _    |
|  6. Kernel: default/kernel (1 of 2)     |    |/   /          /   / _| |_  |
|  7. Boot Options                        |        /          /___/ |_   _| |
|  8. Boot Environments                   |       /                   |_|   |
|                                         |      /_________________________/ 
+-----------------------------------------+                                  \
                                                                                

Exiting menu!


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JonathanLee

@stephenw10 I have never seen that I wonder if flow control needs to be enabled

stephenw10

Hmm, curious. That should show in any vaguely recent version of pfSense. It didn't in older version, I forget exactly when it was enabled, 22.01 maybe.

JonathanLee

@stephenw10 I am running 23.05.01 ARM processor SG2100. I wonder if my terminal software is botching the slash screen when logged in with USB. But it does show a spashscreen. . .

Gertjan

@JonathanLee

Can you try Putty as a console/COM port serial ?

Minimal settings are needed :

COM10, because my PC elected the USB-to-serial adapter to COM10.
Speed : 115200
Type : Telnet = vanilla serial

and that's it.

This works for me (tm) from BIOS boot up until 'pfSEnse up and running'.

JonathanLee

Thanks everyone putty and Windows 11 fixed it with the correct usb driver

Screenshot 2023-11-29 143357.png

Got access to the boot environments now.

I can't get some packages to with with ARM for 23.09 I keep getting completely locked out and having to go back. That fixed it.