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    netgate 2100 fail install to anything

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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      chrisc8107
      last edited by stephenw10

      had an issue with my netgate 2100 had installed ssd to increase space and went to wipe the mmcsd0 with dd via the documentation for the device. it successfully completed. I ran usb install with image from netgate store for my device. got to the part to choose install location and it just failed on both went to the shell before install and ran lsdev and got this.

      +---- Welcome to Netgate pfSense Plus ----+      __________________________
      |                                         |     /                       ___\
      |  1. Boot Multi user [Enter]             |    |                      /`
      |  2. Boot Single user                    |    |                     /    :-|
      |  3. Escape to loader prompt             |    |      _________  ___/    /_ |
      |  4. Reboot                              |    |    /` ____   / /__    ___/ |
      |  5. Cons: Dual (Video primary)          |    |   /  /   /  /    /   /     |
      |                                         |    |  /  /___/  /    /   /      |
      |  Options:                               |    | /   ______/    /   /  _    |
      |  6. Kernel: default/kernel (1 of 1)     |    |/   /          /   / _| |_  |
      |  7. Boot Options                        |        /          /___/ |_   _| |
      |                                         |       /                   |_|   |
      |                                         |      /_________________________/
      +-----------------------------------------+                                  /
      
      
      Exiting menu!
      
      
      Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help.
      OK
      OK
      OK dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcsd0 bs=1M status=progress
      unknown command
      OK sysctl kern.disk
      unknown command                                                                                                                                                        lsdev
      disk devices:
          disk0:    15273601 X 512 blocks (removable)
      MMC: block number 0xe90e81 exceeds max(0xe90e80)
      efipart_readwrite: rw=1, blk=15273600 size=1 status=7
          disk1:    250069681 X 512 blocks
          disk2:    30322689 X 512 blocks (removable)
            disk2s1: Unknown
            disk2s2: DOS/Windows
            disk2s3: FreeBSD
              disk2s3a: FreeBSD UFS
      http: (unknown)
      net devices:
          net0:
      

      not exactly sure why i can not install to my ssd or the mmc and when i reboot the device with no usb it just forever loads address 0x100000.

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        chrisc8107
        last edited by

        Should also note I was using putty and xterm console to use install. It would load both drives mmc and the ssd for choice. Then tell me failed to select install media.

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by

          You can't run that dd command from the loader prompt. You would need to boot the installer and choose the shell from the initial menu there. Then clean the eMMC and exit back to the installer to continue.

          Steve

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