SG-1100 not booting
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Hello everyone.
My SG-1100 stopped working out of blue this week. I went to bed Sunday night with the gateway working and woke up on Monday morning it not working.
I was able to console in saw the following error:
Switch Ports Disabled Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 Card did not respond to voltage select! ** No partition table - mmc 1 ** Reset SCSI scanning bus for devices... ** Bad device scsi 0 **I would appreciate any help you all can offer.
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Could be a failed eMMC unfortunately. Stop the boot at the Marvell prompt and try running:
mmc dev 1; mmc info
Like:Marvell>> mmc dev 1; mmc info switch to partitions #0, OK mmc1(part 0) is current device Device: sdhci@d8000 Manufacturer ID: 45 OEM: 100 Name: SEM08 Bus Speed: 52000000 Mode : MMC High Speed (52MHz) Rd Block Len: 512 MMC version 4.5 High Capacity: Yes Capacity: 7.3 GiB Bus Width: 8-bit Erase Group Size: 512 KiB HC WP Group Size: 16 MiB User Capacity: 7.3 GiB WRREL Boot Capacity: 2 MiB RPMB Capacity: 2 MiBIf that shows good then try:
Marvell>> mmc part Partition Map for MMC device 1 -- Partition Type: DOS Part Start Sector Num Sectors UUID Type 1 1 409600 00000000-01 ef Boot 2 409601 131072 00000000-02 0b 3 540673 14729215 00000000-03 a5 BootIf that doesn't show the expected partitions then I'd try to reinstall:
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/solutions/sg-1100/reinstall-pfsense.html -
@stephenw10 , thank you very much your response.
I wasn't able to get the time to run the commands you shared until this evening.`
This is the output.
Marvell>> mmc dev 1; mmc info switch to partitions #0, OK mmc1(part 0) is current device Device: sdhci@d8000 Manufacturer ID: 45 OEM: 100 Name: DG400 Bus Speed: 52000000 Mode : MMC High Speed (52MHz) Rd Block Len: 512 MMC version 5.1 High Capacity: Yes Capacity: 7.3 GiB Bus Width: 8-bit Erase Group Size: 512 KiB HC WP Group Size: 8 MiB User Capacity: 7.3 GiB WRREL Boot Capacity: 4 MiB ENH RPMB Capacity: 4 MiB ENH Marvell>> mmc part ## Unknown partition table type 0No partitions were displayed, so I will attempt the re-install.
However, partitions mysteriously disappearing is not comforting and the reliability of the gateway is in question.
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Indeed. It may still be bad. The install should prove it either way.
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My worst fears were realized @stephenw10!
The reinstall failed. It was unable to write to the drive.
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Hmm, then it is likely a failed eMMC unfortunately.
It is now possible to install to a USB drive using the Net Installer. And since your eMMC has no partitions showing it shouldn't conflict with anything existing. That might be an option for you.
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I did not know that was an option! Thank you @stephenw10!
I will be trying that. Any advice?
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@egastt I have not done it but there is a writeup/discussion here: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/196372/migrating-netgate-1100-from-emmc-to-usb-flash-storage-to-keep-it-fit
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also maybe helpful, ways to reduce disk writes:
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/195879/netgate-2100-life-expectancy/8 -
Great news @stephenw10 and @SteveITS!
I was able to install pfsense on a USB using UFS attached to my 1100 and it worked. The icing on the cake was that I found a backup of the config I made when I converted to ZFS and was able to restore 99% my configuration!
Outstanding is to update the boot device to boot the USB drive.
I have a few questions based on the threads @SteveITS shared:
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Do I need to run usbrecover the eMMC? I read that I needed to run that to wipe the eMMC to prevent issues boot issues.
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In terms of the USB Flash drive, am I wrong to think that it is subject degradation similar to the eMMC over time?
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@egas_tt said in SG-1100 not booting:
Do I need to run usbrecover the eMMC? I read that I needed to run that to wipe the eMMC to prevent issues boot issues
Sounds like it's empty anyway? It's not booting now?
@egas_tt said in SG-1100 not booting:
USB Flash drive, am I wrong to think that it is subject degradation similar to the eMMC over time
It is, assuming it's a USB stick and not an SSD. It's mentioned in the other thread a bit. The post I linked above may help; recent (25.x?) changes in ZFS may help. Or just install on a new one when this one dies.
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Yup your eMMC seems to have failed to reporting as empty so should be no problem.
The more common failure mode is to go read-only where a filesystem conflict can be an issue. No the case here.
Yes USB flash can have bad wear leveling and die quickly. It depends! I'd recommend using UFS and ramdisks if you can.
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