On Feb 16, 2012, at 5:18 PM, David Miller wrote:
[snip]
>>
>> You can boot the serial memstick (I updated it today for a customer so
>> it's actually even more geared toward running on the 6501), let it boot
>> all the way so it's on the network, then fetch the nanobsd image and
>> write it out from there (may take some fiddling, don't have the syntax
>> handy)
Could it be anything other than 'gzip -dc pfsense-image.gz | dd
of=/dev/appropriate_disk bs=512'
>> The serial memstick is now also set to still use the serial console
>> post-install, and it also defaults to em0 for wan, em1 for lan. Still
>> best to pick the embedded kernel during install. It's still SMP-capable,
>> but also set for the serial console.
>
> So here's what I did:
>
> downloaded serial memstick image (works fine, btw, thanks)
> installed from memstick to a second USB flash drive so I can boot and get a
> console
> booted on the second flash drive, went to command line, scp'd
> pfSense-2.0.1-RELEASE-2g-i386-nanobsd.img.gz to /root
> gzcat pfSense-2.0.1-RELEASE-4g-amd64-nanobsd.img.gz | dd of=/dev/ad6 bs=512
> (also tried pfSense-2.0.1-RELEASE-4g-amd64-nanobsd.img.gz)
>
> I thought that would give me a nice, bootable, nanobsd (embedded, RO) setup.
> However, trying to boot on it gives me:
>
> 1 Seconds to automatic boot. Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor.
> /boot.config: -h
> \
>
>
> And it stops doing anything.
>
> Does the image size (2/4 GB) have to match the flash size (16 GB) ? I'm sure
> I'm doing something st00pid, but can't see what.
>
> Pointers welcome!
If there's no additional pointers to be had on getting a nanobsd image running
on the soekris, is there a list somewhere of the changes to make a pfsense box
run in read-only mode?
I can install to the on-board flash from the serial memstick and have a
bootable system that'll quickly fail because it's not RO.
I can't dd any of the nanobsd images to any usb stick or to the onboard flash
and get the system to boot.
Thanks,
--- David
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