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      michieru
      last edited by

      Having trouble getting Pfsense to boot on a XTM510….

      I downloaded the 4G.img.gz file from the mirrors and used the guide in the wiki to get the compressed image file into a 4GB CF card (Kingston) for this little project. After I replaced the CF card the BIOS detects the new card however Pfsense won't boot after that.

      When I got the CF card I proceeded with the following:

      diskpart

      select disk 1 (CF card)

      clean

      Then used physdiskwrite to place pfSense into the CF card using the following command:

      physdiskwrite -u -d 1 /sourceofimage/4G.img.gz

      If I am missing something here please let me know or point me in the right direction for a better guide.

      Thank you.

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        doktornotor Banned
        last edited by

        @michieru:

        Then used physdiskwrite to place pfSense into the CF card using the following command:
        physdiskwrite -u -d 1 /sourceofimage/4G.img.gz

        Did this complete at all? Never worked for me. Always has to unpack (gunzip) the IMG first before using physdiskwrite, otherwise it writes a couple of sectors and plain fails.

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          phil.davis
          last edited by

          I just made one direct from the gz file. start a command prompt with administrator privs and:

          D:\pfsense> diskpart
          DISKPART> list disk
          
            Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
            --------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---
            Disk 0    Online          232 GB  1024 KB
            Disk 1    No Media           0 B      0 B
            Disk 2    No Media           0 B      0 B
            Disk 3    Online         1907 MB    10 MB
          
          DISKPART> select disk 3
          
          Disk 3 is now the selected disk.
          
          DISKPART> clean
          
          DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk.
          
          DISKPART> exit
          
          Leaving DiskPart...
          
          D:\pfSense>physdiskwrite.exe -u pfSense-2.1-RC1-2g-i386-nanobsd_vga-20130801-1903.img.gz
          
          physdiskwrite v0.5.2 by Manuel Kasper <mk@neon1.net>
          
          Searching for physical drives...
          
          Information for \\.\PhysicalDrive0:
             Windows:       cyl: 30401
                            tpc: 255
                            spt: 63
          Information for \\.\PhysicalDrive1:
          DeviceIoControl() failed on \\.\PhysicalDrive1.
          
          Information for \\.\PhysicalDrive2:
          DeviceIoControl() failed on \\.\PhysicalDrive2.
          
          Information for \\.\PhysicalDrive3:
             Windows:       cyl: 243
                            tpc: 255
                            spt: 63
          
          Which disk do you want to write? (0..3) 3
          About to overwrite the contents of disk 3 with new data. Proceed? (y/n) y
          Found compressed image file
          1989969408/1989969408 bytes written in total
          
          D:\pfSense></mk@neon1.net>
          

          This is using a USB CF card reader/writer on a Windows7 laptop. The "-d n" parameter should work also, I just like to see all the disk info interactively and pick the correct one.

          As the Greek philosopher Isosceles used to say, "There are 3 sides to every triangle."
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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            The XTM510 is one of the older XTM5 models and as such it should just boot. It may have a newer bios that restricts what it can boot but we've not seen any reports of that. When the box powers on what colour is the arm/disarm LED?
            Make sure you are downloading the correct image (not the VGA image). Try using the 2GB image, your card may be too small for the 4GB image even if it claims to be 4GB.

            Steve

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              michieru
              last edited by

              So after BIOS boot I restarted the PUTTY session and changed the baud rate to 9600 with Flow control XON/XOFF. Pfsense was booting however I was believing that it wasn't because the session appeared dead right after…

              I have configured the interfaces and will attempt to make a video explaining the process that even a idiot like me can understand. Thanks for the responses and it's running 4G version on 2.0.3. :-)

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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                last edited by

                Nice.  :)
                Feel free to suggest any improvements to the firebox wiki page in this thread:
                http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,59821.0.html

                Steve

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