[MinnowBoard] Unable to Boot/Install pfSense

[Domenic DiPasquale]

Thank you for the quick response, it was on version 0.90, but I updated to
0.92 this morning just to make sure and there's still no change.
Unfortunately, dding the cd image to the USB never got recognized by the
BIOS and we don't have a usb cdrom drive at the moment to test that theory
either. I'm very curious as to how other people got this to work.

- Dom DiPasquale

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 5:48 PM, John Hawley <john.hawley at intel.com> wrote:

> What version of firmware are you on?
>
> So the problem boils down to the fact that what gets shipped is a pure
> UEFI firmware, without any of the legacy BIOS compatibility layers.  The
> memstick image that's provided looks like it's a single giant partition
> with BSD in it.  This however isn't compatible with UEFI, as it's
> expecting a specific partition to be around to kickstart the whole boot
> process.
>
> Some quick looks seems to indicate that pfSense doesn't (at least
> currently) have UEFI support, though I know that FreeBSD works.  Not
> 100% sure how to get it past and installing, and I'd probably try a usb
> cdrom drive but that's not exactly a great way to go.
>
> You *COULD* try downloading the cd image, dding it to a usb stick and
> see if that will actually boot (no guarantees but sometimes that works).
>  I'll take a look into it and see what I can find though.
>
> - John 'Warthog9' Hawley
>
> On 07/13/2016 01:55 PM, Domenic DiPasquale wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've been trying to set up pfSense on this minnow max for a couple days
> > now and haven't had much progress. I noticed on MinnowBoard's Google+
> > account that others have had success setting up pfSense and was
> > wondering if anyone would be able to help?
> >
> > I've downloaded all my AMD64 (64-bit), CD Image Installer (.iso)/USB
> > Memstick Installer (.img) from https://www.pfsense.org/download/ and
> > tried various ways to make them into bootable USBs (unetbootin, linux's
> > dd command, etc). Every time I tried making the .img a bootable USB, it
> > becomes unaccessable from any computer and isn't recognized by the bios
> > when I try to boot with it. When I made the .iso a bootable USB, I got
> > no error and it was recognized by the bios. Although, I was unable to
> > boot from the USB until I added a boot option to use the loader.efi,
> > which finally booted pfSense. Unfortunately, I still get an error after
> > the pfSense menu:
> >
> >>Mounting from cd9660:/dev/iso9660/PFSENSE failed with error 19.
> >>
> >>Loader variables:
> >>    vfs.root.mountffrom=cd9660:/dev/iso9660/PFSENSE
> >>    vfs.root.mountffrom.options=ro
> >>
> >>Manual root filesystem specification:
> >>    <fstype>:<device> [options]
> >>        Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
> >>
> >>        eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a
> >>              zfs:tank
> >>              cd9660:/dev/acd0 ro
> >>                   (which is equivalent to: mount -t cd9660 -o ro
> > /dev/acd0 /)
> >>
> >>    ?                          List valid disk boot devices
> >>    .                           Yield 1 second (for background tasks)
> >>    <empty line>       Abort manual input
> >>
> >>mountroot>
> >
> > I've tried suggesting all of the devices returned from "?" at the
> > mountroot> in every combination of ufs:/dev/ and cd9660:/dev/, I've
> > tried adding a delay at the loader prompt after the pfSense menu:
> >
> >>set kern.cam.boot_delay="10000"
> >>boot
> >
> > Nothing seems to work and any help/advice would be appreciated, thank
> > you in advance.
> >
> >
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