Upgrade destroys user changes
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In order to get pfSense 2.0-BETA1 to boot on a Soekris net5501, I had to do manual changes to the following files:
/etc/fstab
/etc/ttys
/boot/loader.confWhen upgrading, fstab is left alone, but the two other files are overwritten, and the system is bricked.
May I suggest that on update those files are left alone, or that user changes are merged with the new update.
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I've noticed my loader.conf gets overwritten everytime on upgrade to the latest snapshot as well.
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Are you doing a full install or nanobsd? Sounds like a full install.
Have you tried just enabling the serial console from the GUI? If that doesn't work, please post what changes you had to make to /etc/ttys
As for loader.conf, I had thought that was left alone now. Either way, you should be able to use loader.conf.local which should stay.
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Yes, I am using full install.
I tried to edit loader.conf.local but it still overwrote it. Here are the changes I made to get serial and vidconsole.
loader.conf
console="comconsole,vidconsole" comconsole_speed="115200"/etc/ttys
console "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secureI could try to enable terminal in the webgui but it is fixed to 9600 and it is missing vidconsole just incase I need to access at the physical box.
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Hmm, well loader.conf and loader.conf.local should be removed from new snapshots. I'll have to look at it again tomorrow to check since the snapshots were broken most of the day today.
