On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Jim Spaloss <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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 > Sorry, I missed the part about the memstick image. I will tell you that I had all kinds of problems using the nanobsd images, and ended up hooking up the SSD to a PC running the PFSense installer and choosing the embedded platform.
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