Install on net6501
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P.S. It's generally considered poor form to hijack a 'related' thread when you have one of your own open.
Yeah …. hijack ....... right. Someone started a new thread almost identical to the one I had started a day before with the same issue. You think I might be interested in comments on both threads since they relate ? ? ? ? ? Or did you think that someone might respond to mine and not his with different answers? In case you don't think so, read the two discussions. They have.
If he had commented on my already-open-thread and said, "I have the same issue," I wouldn't have minded a bit.
For those who miss the other thread, here's the update I posted there:
BUT NOW IT WILL BOOT OFF USB if I do not put the SSD card in the unit.
Here's what I did. Plugged an ethernet cable into the unit. That's it. No changes of any other kind.
It will boot off USB with the SATA drive in the Soekris but without the internal SSD.
It will NOT boot off the USB if the SSD drive is installed in EITHER SSD slot.
I don't know if this indicates a bad SSD drive, bad Soekris motherboard or what. It was all purchased from Soekris, so presumably they will make it good for the end customer who purchased it.
Strange…
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It's also poor form to cop an attitude with people trying to help you. Good luck, I'm out of this one.
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I have the exact same problem on soekris 6501, boots happily off the Sandisk USB but if I plug in my mSATA drive supplied by Soekris it won't boot anything :(
I wanted to boot off the USB then install onto my SATA drive in the installation menu.
Any update on this?
Cheers
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Just to wrap this up for any future searchers on this problem I have found a solution that works for me.
With the USB SanDisk and mSata in the Soekris 6501 change the BootDrive to
81, FF ,FF, FF
with the command
set bootdrive=81
This forces the USB drive to boot first which then lets you install the pfsense onto the mSATA drives.
To boot from the mSata drive change the boot order back to 80 which is the mSata drive with
set bootdrive=80
This all works perfectly. This pissed me off all day but it works. I hate working with console cables and terminal screens!
Good luck
