USB 2.0 Flash Drive

sullrich

What are you plugging this drive into?

Have you tried CHS mode if the unit supports?

neemers

What are you plugging this drive into?

Have you tried CHS mode if the unit supports?

It is a 1GB Kingston USB2.0 flash drive. I'm plugging it into the USB on this computer. I also plugged it in to the USB of another computer as well and I get the same error on boot.

I don't know what CHS mode is.

But the settings I have in the BIOS are working fine for booting to M0n0wall…...

sullrich

Maybe something here can help you:

http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=BootTroubleShooting

neemers

@sullrich:

Maybe something here can help you:

http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=BootTroubleShooting

I'm using a USB Thumb drive / flash drive…........ not a usb hard drive......

I'm guessing there is no fix for this? Maybe better thumbdrive support in the next update?

sullrich

USB thumbdrive support works just fine. I would suggest reading that wiki page.

hoba

@neemers:

@sullrich:

Use the embedded image and DD it or use physdiskwrite.exe to write the image to the USB drive the same as you did with m0n0wall.

:'(

So close but same error. I get..

error 1 lba 60064
No /boot/loader

FreeBSD/i386 boot
Default: 0:fd(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel
boot:
error 1 lba 60064
No /boot/kernel/kernel

yada yada

Then sits with a blinking curser…..

An ideas?

Embeddeds have their output at the com1 interface. Use a crossovercable and a terminalprogram to connect to it from another PC. I guess it actually is booting but you just don't get the output after it switched to serial.

neemers

Well I went to a different motherboard that boots from the thumbdrive just fine. I got PFsense up amd running now. I ran into 2 errors when it was setting up the USB thumbdrive though. I just told it to skip and it continued on just fine. The router is not in production yet. But I have a question, there is no swap file showing on the main page of PFsense. There is the Disk usage but no swap file usage. Is this bad? I went with all the defaults when setting up the thumbdrive install and I remember seeing it setup a partition called swap. I think one of the errors I got said something about swap file not found. If things will run fine without a swap then I will leave it, but if you think I need it, then i can reinstall PFSense and get you those errors I'm getting.

Thank you for your help!

Oh and I installed with RC3 as well this time!

neemers

Well I fiddled with it and it looks like I need a bigger USB thumbdirve. I bought a 1GB thumbdrive and thats not big enough!!??? Man that sucks. In the setup it is wanting to make the swap file its self 1GB! I tried setting it lower but it warns me that I will not have enough space for a memory dump. But I only have 512MB of memory installed on the system .

So can I just force the swap file to be 512MB, the size of the memory on the system?

hoba

Swap partition is optional. You can run without it. Just remove it completely.

neemers

@hoba:

Swap partition is optional. You can run without it. Just remove it completely.

Sweet. Thank you for the response hoba, you kick ass!