PfSense on Alix2d13 - Boot error

[d82k]

Dear all,

I have downloaded the following image: pfSense-2.2.2-RELEASE-4g-i386-nanobsd.img, and copied on my 4GB CF.

Unfortunately when I try to boot the frist time I receive this error: "Mounting from ufs:/dev/ufs/pfsense0 failed with error 19."

I think I have found the solution here: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Boot_Troubleshooting#NanoBSD_on_Newer_Hardware

But I cannot get the "loader prompt".
"After the F1/F2 prompt and the kernel loads, press space to get a loader prompt." it does not work…

PC Engines ALIX.2 v0.99h
640 KB Base Memory
261120 KB Extended Memory

01F0 Master 044A CF Card
Phys C/H/S 7314/16/63 Log C/H/S 914/128/63

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@pfs22-i386-builder, Mon Apr 13 20:28:31 CDT 2015)
Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
/boot/kernel/kernel text=0x11fb1a7 data=0x832e48+0x279e60 syms=[0x4+0xf3a10+0x4+0x16bd76]

Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]...

I'm using putty… any idea/suggestions on how I can get the prompt please?
Thank you
dk

[doktornotor]

You do not need any prompt. This works out of the box. Try some other tools to write a working image on the CF.

[d82k]

Thank you for your reply…

I just did

# gzip -d pfSense-2.2.2-RELEASE-4g-i386-nanobsd.img.gz
# dd if=./pfSense-2.2.2-RELEASE-4g-i386-nanobsd.img of=/dev/sdc bs=1M

where sdc is my CF…

Anything wrong?

EDIT: I try with a smaller image

[d82k]

Solved using a 2GB image.

Is there a way to expand the partition? it seems pfsense believes my CF is 2GB only…

[doktornotor]

Expand? No, not really. (Also, there are two system slices you can switch between.)

[stephenw10]

Yeah. there's no practical way to expand the image. It's possibe to create another slice in the remaiing space and use it for something but I wouldn't recommend it. Are you running out of space?
I usually run the 1GB image simply because it writes to the card faster.
That's a curious error though, I thought the images were now small enough for even the most optimistic definition of 4GB! What card do you have?

Steve