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    Soekris 6501 usb boot/mount problem

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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    • N
      notro
      last edited by

      I have problems booting pfSense-2.0.1-RELEASE-4g-i386-nanobsd.img (and the 2g and 1g image) with usb flash on the Soekris net6501.
      Booting is fine until it's time to mount root. It can't find the device.
      If I insert an extra usb flash in the external port, it detects it, and the usb boot device shows up.

      The LiveCD (memstick) image boots fine.

      M0n0wall (bootlog) and FreeBSD 8.2 (bootlog) also boots fine.

      Here is part of the boot log for the two pfSense images:

      pfSense-2.0.1-RELEASE-4g-i386-nanobsd.img (bootlog)

      uhub7: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
      Root mount waiting for: usbus7
      ugen7.2: <sandisk>at usbus7
      umass0: <sandisk 0="" 2="" cruzer="" fit,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 2.00="" 1.26,="" addr="">on usbus7
      Root mount waiting for: usbus7
      Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ufs/pfsense0
      ROOT MOUNT ERROR:
      
      […]
      
      mountroot> ?
      
      List of GEOM managed disk devices:
      
      […]
      
      –-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Inserting 64 MB usb flash in external port
      -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      
      da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
      da0: <sandisk cruzer="" fit="" 1.26="">Removable Direct Access SCSI-5 device
      da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
      da0: 7633MB (15633408 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 973C)
      GEOM: da0s1: geometry does not match label (16h,63s != 255h,63s).
      GEOM: da0s2: geometry does not match label (16h,63s != 255h,63s).
      ?
      
      List of GEOM managed disk devices:
        ufs/pfsense1 ufs/pfsense0 ufsid/4ee6a8ade180251f ufs/cf ufsid/4ee6b1ad1fcce77b da0s2a da0s1a da0s3 da0s2 da0s1 da0
      
      […]
      
      mountroot> ufs:/dev/ufs/pfsense0
      Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ufs/pfsense0
      WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
      Invalid time in real time clock.
      Check and reset the date immediately!
      Configuring crash dumps…
      Mounting filesystems...</sandisk></sandisk></sandisk> 
      

      pfSense-memstick-serial-2.0.1-RELEASE-i386.img (bootlog)

      uhub7: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
      ugen7.2: <sandisk>at usbus7
      umass0: <sandisk 0="" 2="" cruzer="" fit,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 2.00="" 1.26,="" addr="">on usbus7
      umass0:  SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x0000
      umass0:0:0:-1: Attached to scbus0
      da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
      da0: <sandisk cruzer="" fit="" 1.26="">Removable Direct Access SCSI-5 device
      da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
      da0: 7633MB (15633408 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 973C)
      SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
      GEOM: da0: geometry does not match label (16h,63s != 255h,63s).
      GEOM: da0: media size does not match label.
      Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ufs/pfSense
      Invalid time in real time clock.
      Check and reset the date immediately!
      Configuring crash dumps…
      Mounting filesystems...</sandisk></sandisk></sandisk> 
      

      Any help is appreciated.

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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by

        http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Boot_Troubleshooting#Booting_from_USB

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          notro
          last edited by

          Thanks, that worked!

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