On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Erik Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm at a loss here - > > My shiny new 5501 arrived today, along with the SATA mounting kit and > a small SSD drive. Knowing that the 5501 doesn't support USB boot, I > connected the SSD to another system, and installed 2.0.1 to it using > the memstick image. I chose the embedded kernel. > > After connecting the SSD to the 5501, the bootloader started just > fine, and it loaded the kernel, but failed when trying to mount the > root partition. > > A full transcript of the boot process is here: > > http://pastebin.me/82c3fe0bb271a67bf86d5a0d0f0e89f9 > > You can see on line 161 that the SSD was detected as device ad1, and > the system was trying to mount root from /dev/ad4s1a. Problem. > > So, at the mountroot> prompt, I assumed I could just type > "ufs:/dev/ad1s1a". That didn't work, and gave the same error message. > > From the loader prompt, here's the device list: > > OK lsdev > cd devices: > disk devices: > disk0: BIOS drive C: > disk0s1a: FFS > disk0s1b: swap > pxe devices: > zfs devices: > > Any pointers? > > Thank you! > _______________________________________________ > List mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > I had a similar issue with two 6501s and mSATA SSDs. I ended up hooking the SSDs up to a PC, booting to the PFSense CD, dropping to a command line, and modifying the fstab file on the SSD. The SSDs showed up as a different devices on the PC they were installed on, and installation was quite the ordeal. I also had an issue with the installer trying to add a swap partition, which caused it to fail. How did you go about installing PFSense on the SSD? Is it possible that your boot volume ended up on another slice or partition? /dev/ad1s2a? I just pulled up the fstab from one of the 6501s and can see that I had changed it to /dev/ad4s1a from /dev/ads1a. Thanks, Jim
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