Problems Booting pfSense on soekris net4801

evermorian

I am trying to install pfSense on a soekris net4801 and, not having much luck.

I put the pfSense-2.2.2-RELEASE-2g-i386-nanobsd image on a 2GB CF card. I have the net4801 set to the recommended settings and my serial port configured to match (9600/8/N/1).

Everything is fine in the soekris console.

When I get to the boot prompt, anything I type echos back as #s. After I hit enter or press either 1 or 2 (for boot options), I just get line noise.

I assume it is booting but, I can't see anything to proceed. It's like the serial settings changed. I've tried different serial settings with no better results.

I have tried re-downloading and re-imaging the CF, using the 1G image instead, two different serial cables, two different host machines, four different terminal programs.

Another CF with m0nowall on it boots just fine on the same net4801.

Here is the output:


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comBIOS ver. 1.33  20080103  Copyright (C) 2000-2007 Soekris Engineering.

net4801

0128 Mbyte Memory                        CPU Geode SC1100 267 Mhz

Pri Mas  Flash Card                      LBA Xlt 1007-64-63  2031 Mbyte

Slot   Vend Dev  ClassRev Cmd  Stat CL LT HT  Base1    Base2   Int
-------------------------------------------------------------------
0:00:0 1078 0001 06000000 0107 0280 00 00 00 00000000 00000000
0:06:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E101 A0000000 10
0:07:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E201 A0001000 10
0:08:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E301 A0002000 10
0:18:2 100B 0502 01018001 0005 0280 00 00 00 00000000 00000000
0:19:0 0E11 A0F8 0C031008 0117 0280 08 38 00 A0003000 00000000 11

comBIOS Monitor.   Press ? for help.

> show

ConSpeed = 9600
ConLock = Enabled
ConMute = Disabled
BIOSentry = Enabled
PCIROMS = Enabled
PXEBoot = Disabled
FLASH = Primary
BootDelay = 5
FastBoot = Disabled
BootPartition = Disabled
BootDrive = 80 81 F0 FF
ShowPCI = Enabled
Reset = Hard
CpuSpeed = Default

> boot

1  pfSense
2  pfSense

F6 PXE
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Any ideas?

jimp

Serial console speed on 2.2+ defaults to 115200. Looks like a serial speed mismatch.