Installing PfSense on Alix

lucap

Hi all! :)
I want to install PfSense on an my Alix. I downloaded the img file and copied it on the 4GB compact flash (using dd).
Now I have this problem: I connect to the board with a serial cable and when I boot the Alix, i reach the bootloader as follows:

PC Engines ALIX.2 v0.99
640 KB Base Memory
261120 KB Extended Memory

01F0 Master 044A CF 4GB
Phys C/H/S 7785/16/63 Log C/H/S 973/128/63

1 pfSense
2 pfSense

F6 PXE
Boot: 1 ####

but every key I press it prints a "#", so I can't boot.
Tried to change speed from 38400 to 9600 in the alix bios and in the serial terminal (minicom), as lot of people suggests on the net, but it doesn't works.
My board is a PC Engines ALIX.2 v0.99. I tried to use pfSense-1.2.3-RELEASE-4g-nanobsd.img and pfSense-2.0-RC3-4g-i386-20110621-1821-nanobsd.img files.

Here is my alix bios configuration:

640 KB Base Memory
261120 KB Extended Memory

01F0 Master 044A CF 4GB
Phys C/H/S 7785/16/63 Log C/H/S 973/128/63

BIOS setup:

9 9600 baud (2) 19200 baud (3) 38400 baud (5) 57600 baud (1) 115200 baud
C CHS mode (L) LBA mode (W) HDD wait (V) HDD slave (U) UDMA enable
(M) MFGPT workaround
(P) late PCI init
R Serial console enable
(E) PXE boot enable
(X) Xmodem upload
(Q) Quit

Maybe I have to downaload another file? Is there a specific file to use for alix?

Can you help me please?

Theank you a lot.

Luca

GruensFroeschli

Update your (tiny)BIOS to 0.99h
You can download the needed files here: http://pcengines.ch/alix2.htm

lucap

@GruensFroeschli:

Update your (tiny)BIOS to 0.99h
You can download the needed files here: http://pcengines.ch/alix2.htm

Thank you a lot GruensFroeschli. Now, with the 0.99h bios, it works!!!

Thank you again!!! :)

Luca