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    • P
      phil.davis
      last edited by

      2.2-ALPHA (i386)
      built on Thu Apr 17 10:54:27 CDT 2014
      FreeBSD 10.0-STABLE

      The bootstrap has got a new pfSense menu prior to the initial FreeBSD load:

      1  pfSense
2  pfSense

F6 PXE
Boot:  1
/boot/config: -h
Consoles: serial port
BIOS drive C: is disk0
BIOS 640kB/261120kB available memory

FreeBSD/x86 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
(root@builder-10-0-b3-i386, Thu Apr 17 11:32:03 CDT 2014)
Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
/
          __ ____
   _ __  / _/ ___|  ___ _ __  ___  ___
  | '_ \| |_\___ \ / _ \ '_ \/ __|/ _ \
  | |_) |  _|___) |  __/ | | \__ \  __/
  | .__/|_| |____/ \___|_| |_|___/\___|
  |_|

 +------------Welcome to pfSense-----------+
 |                                         |                 ______
 |  1\. Boot Multi User [Enter]             |                /      \
 |  2\. Boot [s]ingle User                  |          _____/    f   \
 |  3\. [Esc]ape to loader prompt           |         /     \        /
 |  4\. Reboot                              |        /   p   \______/  Sense
 |                                         |        \       /      \
 |  Options:                               |         \_____/        \
 |  5\. [K]ernel: kernel (1 of 2)           |               \        /
 |  6\. Configure Boot [O]ptions...         |                \______/
 |                                         |
 |                                         |
 |                                         |
 +-----------------------------------------+

/boot/kernel/kernel text=0x10f891b data=0x71d1f0+0x1f9be8 syms=[0x4+0xeb410+0x4+0x160967]
Booting...

I tried pressing stuff like "2" "S" "6" "O", but no joy so far in getting anything other than the default boot when I finally give in and press Enter. I guess the code underneath is coming...[/s]

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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by

        It worked when I used it recently, at least to get to the loader prompt and I think once for Single User Mode.

        We usually hide that on NanoBSD but the format/variables to control that boot menu changed for 10.x (or maybe it was even for 9.x)

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