ALIX.2D13 Bios upgrade
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Hello - apologies in advance if topic already posted - but searched and did not find the answer
As per Pfsense pre-install instructions I should upgrade the bios of this Alix board to 99h I have used dd to setup image on CF card but when I run sb.com it fails
Can anyone provide any insight?
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PC Engines ALIX.2 v0.99m
640 KB Base Memory
261120 KB Extended Memory01F0 Master 044A CF 4GB
Phys C/H/S 7785/16/63 Log C/H/S 973/128/63
FreeDOS kernel build 2036 cvs [version Aug 18 2006 compiled Aug 18 2006]…................123
Kernel compatibility 7.10 - WATCOMC - 80386 CPU required - FAT32 support(C) Copyright 1995-2006 Pasquale J. Villani and The FreeDOS Project.
All Rights Reserved. This is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO
WARRANTY; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation;
either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.- InitDiskWARNING: using suspect partition Pri:1 FS 06: with calculated values 3-113-49 instead of 1-242-49
C: HD1, Pri[ 1], CHS= 0-1-1, start= 0 MB, size= 15 MB
FreeDOS HIMEM64 3.26 [Aug 25 2006] 1995, Till Gerken 2001-2006 tom ehlert
HIMEM - Always On A20 method used
Kernel: allocated 43 Diskbuffers = 22876 Bytes in HMA
FreeCom version 0.84-pre2 XMS_Swap [Aug 28 2006 00:29:00]
C:>sb.com
ALIX flash update (C)2007 PC Engines GmbH
Flash ID = 1 0000 GPI = 00
Flash ID = 0 5BBF GPI = 01- FAIL ! - InitDiskWARNING: using suspect partition Pri:1 FS 06: with calculated values 3-113-49 instead of 1-242-49
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m is newer than h.
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oh man. I am an idiot. Sorry for being so stupid
Can I ask you next step - I have now copied the image of pfsense to the CF card. What is the method to access Pfsense from the alix board? Still use serial? Or connect another way?
Thanks,
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I was using the wrong image. All set.
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From what I read on the pcengines site, you should be using m if you have a newer board, if you flash it to h, you will not be able to save settings in the setup.