On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Michel Servaes <[email protected]> wrote: > > PC Engines ALIX.2 v0.99h > 640 KB Base Memory > 261120 KB Extended Memory > > No boot device available, press Enter to continue. >
That's a new one. The very few scenarios I've heard of in the past were filesystem corruption that it fails to repair with fsck, leaving the system unbootable, but it gets well past that, and that's far different since it's the boot sector. I can't think of anything but hardware problems that could possibly cause that. That makes me wonder if you have bad blocks on the CF that hosed your previous boot sector, and when you rewrite it, the wear leveling writes to unaffected blocks. I really doubt if that's anything other than the CF, maybe a few bad cards in the batch you got. With at least tens of thousands of ALIX systems out there running pfSense, to be the first to run into something is highly unusual. > I am using the "embedded" version on a 4GB Kingston CF card... (it's > not an industrial one...). That sounds like the same CF cards we use (and seriously abuse) quite a bit, we've never had a problem with those. Personally, I wouldn't trust either of the cards this happened to, for running in remote locations at least. Most of my systems in production in the field have SanDisk cards in them, and most of our resellers ship with SanDisk. My testing and development systems get infinitely more abuse than any production system though, and they almost all run Kingston cards. There are a few different Kingston models though, maybe you have something different from the ones we have. > But when using embedded - I guess I am > using read-only, no ? > Unless you got in under the hood and changed how things work, yes, you're read only. Besides, the boot sector has nothing to do with how your partitions are mounted. It could result in partition corruption, but that's not what you're seeing. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
