David Miller <[email protected]> writes: > On 1/20/12 8:19 PM, mdh wrote: >> David Miller wrote: >>> I just took delivery on a shiny new Soekris 6501. I'm trying to >>> install pfsense on it. I've installed from CD on several servers, >>> but this is my first time with a diskless machine. >>> >>> I have a serial port converter on a macbook pro, and can bring up >>> the soekris to a monitor prompt. >>> >>> I have a 16 GB USB drive mounted inside the case. I'd like to >>> install pfsense on this drive. >>> >>> I copied pfSense-memstick-2.0.1-RELEASE-i386.img to the drive with >>> dd if=pfSense-memstick-2.0.1-RELEASE-i386.img of=/dev/disk4 bs=16k >>> as it suggested in >>> http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/HOWTO_Install_pfSense. >>> >>> The system starts up OK, I hit return to boot, and it APPEARS to go >>> through a boot process. The screen display is confused, with the >>> 'spinning' cursor wandering all over my terminal emulator. Worse, >>> letters go across the screen but are immediately blanked out. What >>> term emulator do I need to be? I've tried xterm and xterm-color. >> Probably vt100 or somesuch, for serial. xterm supports a lot of >> things that most serial consoles do not. > > No dice:( None of vt102/rsvt/ansi/xterm/xterm-color work. > > If I interrupt the boot process at the right point I get the freebsd > boot prompt, so I think I've got the memstick loaded right. > > Has anyone got pfsense loaded on a soekris 6501 ?
Yes, I do, doing essentially the same thing you did. But, as others have pointed out, you probably have your serial terminal configured to 19200 baud (which is what the Soekris boots up with), and FreeBSD/pfSense switches to 9600 baud. I recommend just switching the Soekris over to 9600 baud. -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
