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    Can't boot 'kernel' message when trying to boot from USB .

    Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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      Sopalajo de Arrierez
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      I have installed pfSense on a AMD64-X2 computer without problems, but this time I am testing on an older machine (512MB RAM), and my attempts to boot from MenStick USB version always stop at the beggining , with just a message:

      Can't boot 'kernel' 
      

      No more error messages, just the usual stuff of "Booting … etc".

      I request some help, please. How can I boot (and thus install) pfSense when this error happens?

      Of course, I can write down any additional info, but isn't it possible to obtain more data of the problem than such a simple error message?

      These are the versions I have tested (created with Rufus):

      pfSense-memstick-2.3-ALPHA-amd64-20160101-0738.img
      pfSense-memstick-2.2.6-RELEASE-i386-20151221-1450.img
      pfSense-memstick-2.3-BETA-i386-20160117-0430.img
      
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        Sopalajo de Arrierez
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        Answering myself: solved booting via LiveCD.
        It should be some problem with the USB booting routines, maybe due to a rather old machine :

        http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/775Dual-915GL/

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