I have gone out and purchased a SanDisk 8GB CF Card. Using VMWare Workstation, mounted the CF as physical drive. Booted off CD, ran install to disk option, all defaults to install to CF (chose Embedded Kernel). Shut down, installed into ALIX, boot only comes up with the following:
PfSense Default: F1 Can't do anything from there. Redid the above, followed the http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=12973.msg72095 (steps 1 to 14), this is of course for a CF HDD Microdrive. Specifically the da0s1a to ad0s1a entries in fstab. Still get the same thing: PfSense Default: F1 Any ideas on how to solve this? Regards, Chuck -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Buechler Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 10:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Packages with pfSense embedded not an option - very sad On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Morgan Reed <[email protected]> wrote: > > Wear leveling is your friend. If your CF card is significantly larger > than the data stored on it you'll get longer life out of it. > Definitely seems to be the case, even when using half the CF. > Catch is getting it installed on the 4GB CF first, I've done this once > using a random CF->IDE adapter, disabling DMA in BIOS and from the > loader prompt so that it'll actually work (most CF->IDE adapters > aren't built in such a way that they allow the CF card to negotiate > DMA like an HDD would), install ran fine, modified loader.conf to > ensure DMA is turned off, it did seem to work but it took a good 20 > mins to boot, so I'm not sure what the other differences are between a > full and an embedded system. > If you choose the embedded kernel during install, it should boot no problem. It includes disabling DMA, enabling serial console, etc. In the not too distant future we'll likely be distributing a new embedded 1.2.x, essentially a full install img for various size cards. It upgrades reliably (though pretty slowly, that doesn't really matter), and packages work fine. It'll be equivalent to installing it from iso yourself, just easier. It's easy to install to CF using a USB CF writer and VMware USB redirection. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
