![]() This is a big no go.Īt the moment i stuck in opnsense with WIFI configuration. I will use opnsense because pfsense does not really support foreign hardware.Īlso they decided to only support hardware encryption from 2.5 on. I tried the same with pfsense, but no chance. ![]() Now i tried another way ,i used USB Image Tool 1.76 fom Īnd surprise i was able to boot from my USB-Stick. It boots up.Įverything was ok till i updated to 20.1.7. Installed opensens on the SSD with MBR partition. So then i tried to remove the 8GB SSD out of the Box into e SATA USB adapter.īooted from CD on another PC wit CD-Drive. It looks like both do something with the partition table. I tried rufus and etcher.Īlways the same "checksum error" on booting. My first attempts writing an image to my USB-Stick where bad. These box should be a replacement for my very old LEX UNO 32bit box with pfsense. Ok latest bios was from 2012 an no chance to get new one. I spend a lot of time fiddling around for my good "old" LEX UNO based Securepoint firewall. I strongly suggest at least a warning to others to beware if using older MBR boot BIOS or, heaven forbid, an extra downloadable for USB images that gets the boot sectors and partitions right, without expecting you to take a Masters in Rocket Science and DIY. I guess we'll all use Linux instead, which installs in seconds on the same hardware and. But if you Google as I did, you might notice that there are a fair few "idiots" out there. Most people will scoff at my comments and write this off as a rant by an idiot. Some complete muppet at FreeBSD has decided that older hardware is irrelevant and you've inherited that decision by basing your system on the same flawed installer. So that's no good either.Īctually, this is a FreeBSD issue - their forums are full of people describing similar experiences and there are all sorts of lengthy and over complicated "solutions" which essentially boil down to fixing up the basic FreeBSD installer so MBR boot on legacy kit works. They either don't accept the ISO image as valid, or hang. Or put a sticky up with some simple instructions that don't assume Windows starting point or comfort using hex editors! I can replicate this issue on Linux (Debian), MacOS, and Windows, and agree that most "burners" can't resolve this either. If this is an issue inherited from FreeBSD then please put a large warning on your download page to tell people not to waste the next phase of their lives attempting the seemingly impossible. Bootstrapping from a fresh FreeBSD has the same issue for me, so that workaround is no good either. ![]() I have OPNsense deployed and want to stay with this, but if I spend hours trying to make it install because the FreeBSD checksum test decides the IMG is defective then it's tedious. I note (as others have) that pfSense does not seem to share this issue. For me, the curent nano and serial images (MBR) start to boot but don't complete. In short, the default GPT/UEFI stuff prevents older hardware from booting the VGA image from USB at all. It seems that the same is true of a generic FreeBSD mini-memstick install as well. ![]() There's a fair few posts around this subject, but the issue remains unresolved in any sensible fashion. ![]()
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