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    Installing pfSense 2.2.2 on Netgate RCC-VE 2440

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      chryzo
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      I'm trying to install pfSense on my Netgate RCC-VE 2440, but cannot get the memstick to boot. After POST, the console stops at

      
      Booting from Hard Disk...
      Booting from 0000:7c00
      
      

      Image used: both pfSense-memstick-serial-2.2.1-RELEASE-amd64-20150313-0816.img and pfSense-memstick-serial-2.2.2-RELEASE-amd64-20150413-2010.img

      Image written to disk with physdiskwrite, and USB stick boots on a laptop.

      According to pre-installed CentOS, the USB serial console port is registered as COM/ttY1 - is the installer trying to send output to COM/tty0?

      Any pointers to what I do wrong would be much appreciated  :)

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        cmb
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        You have to use the ADI RCC-VE memstick. It's since been added to the download selection page.
        https://www.pfsense.org/download/mirror.php?section=downloads

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          chryzo
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          Thanks for the tip - I'll try that image now!

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            clusty
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            I got this working only with Putty under windoze as a serial console.
            All others I've tried: screen, CoolTerm, serialTools on Mac give me garbaged output: Not able to render curses coloured UI, text progress bar makes for unreadeable UI.

            Any idea how to fix this, so I can connect from some *Nix to the serial port? ( This is not really specific to RCC-VE 2440 I guess )

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              superweasel
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              For OS X, the best way I have found to have reliable, drop dead stupid serial emulation is to use Serial https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/serial/id877615577?mt=12. Supports all the various terminal types and several of the most common USB to serial adapters without requiring drivers. I have used it with both a PC Engines APU4 and now a pfSense SG-4860.

              pfSense rig: pfSense SG-4860/120GB SSD
              WAN: CenturyLink Gigabit Fiber

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                chryzo
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                The ADI image did the trick, but as clusty I got messy install-menu. Was able to complete install, so only minor inconvenience.

                What I have tested with 2.2.2 so far:

                • Install to and boot from mSATA disk
                • 802.11N WiFi (WLE200NX)
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                • jahonixJ
                  jahonix
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                  @clusty:

                  I got this working only with Putty under windoze as a serial console.
                  All others I've tried […] give me garbaged output

                  Coming from a Windows world myself I know what you're saying. Been there, …
                  There's puTTY for OS X which works reasonably well (but needs X11).
                  Currently I use ZOC in OS X which works great. I also have a Win7 VM where I use Tera Term frequently.

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