Hello, I have done some more work to get pfSense booting from the compactflash on "regular" pc hardware with a CF-IDE adapter, our Hacom/Lex hardware or even from the USB flash drive, using grub as the boot loader.
1. IBM PC-compatible hardware (CF-IDE primary master). They should be used if you put the compactflash on the CF-IDE adapter on the primary IDE master. I have just built but not tested these, since I don't have the hardware here. http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/pub/pfsense/pfSense-pc-0.84-128M.bin.gz http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/pub/pfsense/pfSense-pc-0.84-128M.bin.gz.md5 http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/pub/pfsense/pfSense-pc-0.84-256M.bin.gz http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/pub/pfsense/pfSense-pc-0.84-256M.bin.gz.md5 http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/pub/pfsense/pfSense-pc-0.84-512M.bin.gz http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/pub/pfsense/pfSense-pc-0.84-512M.bin.gz.md5 http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/pub/pfsense/pfSense-pc-0.84-1gbM.bin.gz http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/pub/pfsense/pfSense-pc-0.84-1gbM.bin.gz.md5 2. USB flash drives. We have tested them with our Hacom Openbrick-E/Lex hardware, which have the Award bios. The bios can be configured to boot from USB-HDD. It may work if you have similar bios. Your milage may vary! http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/pub/pfsense/pfSense-usb-0.84-128M.bin.gz http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/pub/pfsense/pfSense-usb-0.84-128M.bin.gz.md5 http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/pub/pfsense/pfSense-usb-0.84-256M.bin.gz http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/pub/pfsense/pfSense-usb-0.84-256M.bin.gz.md5 http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/pub/pfsense/pfSense-usb-0.84-512M.bin.gz http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/pub/pfsense/pfSense-usb-0.84-512M.bin.gz.md5 http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/pub/pfsense/pfSense-usb-0.84-1gbM.bin.gz http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/pub/pfsense/pfSense-usb-0.84-1gbM.bin.gz.md5 3. Our Hacom's OpenBrick-E family/Lex hardware. The compactflash is put on the built-in CF slot, which is the IDE secondary master. http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/pub/pfsense/pfSense-Hacom-0.84-128M.bin.gz http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/pub/pfsense/pfSense-Hacom-0.84-128M.bin.gz.md5 http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/pub/pfsense/pfSense-Hacom-0.84-256M.bin.gz http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/pub/pfsense/pfSense-Hacom-0.84-256M.bin.gz.md5 http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/pub/pfsense/pfSense-Hacom-0.84-512M.bin.gz http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/pub/pfsense/pfSense-Hacom-0.84-512M.bin.gz.md5 http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/pub/pfsense/pfSense-Hacom-0.84-1gbM.bin.gz http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/pub/pfsense/pfSense-Hacom-0.84-1gbM.bin.gz.md5 To install them: 1. Linux. CF on the USB reader! gunzip -c pfSense-pc-0.84-128M.bin.gz | dd of=/dev/sda bs=16k 2. FreeBSD. CF on the USB reader! gunzip -c pfSense-pc-0.84-128M.bin.gz | dd of=/dev/da0 bs=16k 3. Windows. Use physdiskwrite! Please try them and let me know how they work. Thanks. Bao -- Best Regards. Bao C. Ha Hacom OpenBrick Distributor USA http://www.hacom.net voice: (714) 530-8817 fax: (714) 530-8818 8D66 6672 7A9B 6879 85CD 42E0 9F6C 7908 ED95 6B38
