[pfSense Support] CF 1.0.1 boot failure
Hi I am trying to run pfSense from a CF card, have written images to various cards. Monowall boots fine and runs from 16M CF card so it would seem the IDE CF reader is ok. This is on a Pentium 166 system. With pfSense, trying a number of different CF cards 128M and 256M: The BTX loader seems to run OK. Then I get: FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1([EMAIL PROTECTED], Sunday Oct 29 01:30:00 UTC 2006)Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf/ The "/" does a couple of circles then stops... I have tried to get the serial output by connecting HyperTerminal to the serial port. It seems it might be too early to get a serial output - as I do not get anything? Any guidance would be appreciated. David Hingston
Re: [pfSense Support] CF 1.0.1 boot failure
Hi running pfsense using 1GB CF. No problem so far. - Original Message - From: Tortise To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 3:37 PM Subject: [pfSense Support] CF 1.0.1 boot failure Hi I am trying to run pfSense from a CF card, have written images to various cards. Monowall boots fine and runs from 16M CF card so it would seem the IDE CF reader is ok. This is on a Pentium 166 system. With pfSense, trying a number of different CF cards 128M and 256M: The BTX loader seems to run OK. Then I get: FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1([EMAIL PROTECTED], Sunday Oct 29 01:30:00 UTC 2006)Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf/ The "/" does a couple of circles then stops... I have tried to get the serial output by connecting HyperTerminal to the serial port. It seems it might be too early to get a serial output - as I do not get anything? Any guidance would be appreciated. David Hingston
RE: [pfSense Support] CF 1.0.1 boot failure
The embedded images have output at com1. There won't be video output once it started. This is due to some embedded devices only having serial console and no video. Access your machine at com1, 9600baud using a terminalprogram. Holger From: Tortise [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 8:37 AM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: [pfSense Support] CF 1.0.1 boot failure Hi I am trying to run pfSense from a CF card, have written images to various cards. Monowall boots fine and runs from 16M CF card so it would seem the IDE CF reader is ok. This is on a Pentium 166 system. With pfSense, trying a number of different CF cards 128M and 256M: The BTX loader seems to run OK. Then I get: FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED], Sunday Oct 29 01:30:00 UTC 2006) Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf / The / does a couple of circles then stops... I have tried to get the serial output by connecting HyperTerminal to the serial port. It seems it might be too early to get a serial output - as I do not get anything? Any guidance would be appreciated. David Hingston - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [pfSense Support] CF 1.0.1 boot failure
Do you get any serial output on Hyperterminal on your m0n0wall config? I would suspect on the serial consol output -- Hyperterminal relation. The boot loader after a few spins switches over to serial consol output. It seems to me this happens to you. Sorry I don't know hyperterminal so I can't help with that to you. On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:37:06 +1300 Tortise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am trying to run pfSense from a CF card, have written images to various cards. Monowall boots fine and runs from 16M CF card so it would seem the IDE CF reader is ok. This is on a Pentium 166 system. With pfSense, trying a number of different CF cards 128M and 256M: The BTX loader seems to run OK. Then I get: FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED], Sunday Oct 29 01:30:00 UTC 2006) Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf / The / does a couple of circles then stops... I have tried to get the serial output by connecting HyperTerminal to the serial port. It seems it might be too early to get a serial output - as I do not get anything? Any guidance would be appreciated. David Hingston signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [pfSense Support] Minimium Hardware 96 MRAM?
On 11/6/06, Bill Marquette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/5/06, Rob Terhaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I store my swapfile on a ram drive!I certainly hope that's a joke, cause it's the daftest thing I've ever heard otherwise!!! :)--BillMmmh, sorry for the stupid question... but why it is so nasty? I think it depends on what you do with your swap file. I.E. I used a ramdisk for creatind squid temporary dirs, and it works faster Please, let me understand what I should expect from the future :-) Thank you sooo muchTom
Re: [pfSense Support] CF 1.0.1 boot failure
Perhaps I have a null modem connection problem as 5 beeps are eventually heard, suggesting it may be running up properly, however I can't ping any of the (3) NIC's at 192.168.1.1 as I presume I should be able to do on at least one? (Using 192.168.1.2 255 255 255 0) I get no output to HyperTerminal or to Teraterm, tried various cables, definitely using COM1 form the motherboard H - Original Message - From: Holger Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 10:48 PM Subject: RE: [pfSense Support] CF 1.0.1 boot failure The embedded images have output at com1. There won't be video output once it started. This is due to some embedded devices only having serial console and no video. Access your machine at com1, 9600baud using a terminalprogram. Holger From: Tortise [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 8:37 AM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: [pfSense Support] CF 1.0.1 boot failure Hi I am trying to run pfSense from a CF card, have written images to various cards. Monowall boots fine and runs from 16M CF card so it would seem the IDE CF reader is ok. This is on a Pentium 166 system. With pfSense, trying a number of different CF cards 128M and 256M: The BTX loader seems to run OK. Then I get: FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED], Sunday Oct 29 01:30:00 UTC 2006) Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf / The / does a couple of circles then stops... I have tried to get the serial output by connecting HyperTerminal to the serial port. It seems it might be too early to get a serial output - as I do not get anything? Any guidance would be appreciated. David Hingston - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [pfSense Support] CF 1.0.1 boot failure
Maybe your nullmodemcable is not ok. You need to assign NICs first from the console before you can use any of the interfaces (unless you are using sis nics which are preconfigured for the embedded image). Check your cable at another box to see if it actually is working. Holger -Original Message- From: Tortise [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 11:19 AM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] CF 1.0.1 boot failure Perhaps I have a null modem connection problem as 5 beeps are eventually heard, suggesting it may be running up properly, however I can't ping any of the (3) NIC's at 192.168.1.1 as I presume I should be able to do on at least one? (Using 192.168.1.2 255 255 255 0) I get no output to HyperTerminal or to Teraterm, tried various cables, definitely using COM1 form the motherboard H - Original Message - From: Holger Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 10:48 PM Subject: RE: [pfSense Support] CF 1.0.1 boot failure The embedded images have output at com1. There won't be video output once it started. This is due to some embedded devices only having serial console and no video. Access your machine at com1, 9600baud using a terminalprogram. Holger From: Tortise [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 8:37 AM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: [pfSense Support] CF 1.0.1 boot failure Hi I am trying to run pfSense from a CF card, have written images to various cards. Monowall boots fine and runs from 16M CF card so it would seem the IDE CF reader is ok. This is on a Pentium 166 system. With pfSense, trying a number of different CF cards 128M and 256M: The BTX loader seems to run OK. Then I get: FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED], Sunday Oct 29 01:30:00 UTC 2006) Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf / The / does a couple of circles then stops... I have tried to get the serial output by connecting HyperTerminal to the serial port. It seems it might be too early to get a serial output - as I do not get anything? Any guidance would be appreciated. David Hingston - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [pfSense Support] Minimium Hardware 96 MRAM?
On 11/7/06, Tommaso Di Donato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/6/06, Bill Marquette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/5/06, Rob Terhaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I store my swapfile on a ram drive! I certainly hope that's a joke, cause it's the daftest thing I've ever heard otherwise!!! :) --Bill Mmmh, sorry for the stupid question... but why it is so nasty? I think it depends on what you do with your swap file. I.E. I used a ramdisk for creatind squid temporary dirs, and it works faster Please, let me understand what I should expect from the future :-) Thank you sooo much Tom Let's see. The reason you are swapping is because you ran out of ram. #1 most likely reason you ran out of ram...you made a large ramdisk so you could put swap on it! It makes more sense to ADD ram to a box than to figure out a way to make swap faster (especially when the end result costs you RAM which you needed to eliminate the swap issue!) Squid has nothing to do with the OS swap file btw - unrelated question. Sure, using a ramdisk for the squid cache will be faster...until you reboot and lose all the cache (and have to recreate the cache dir), then your browsing is slow again until the cache is built back up. I could see putting a squid cache (or swap) on Craigs device though :) --Bill - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [pfSense Support] Minimium Hardware 96 MRAM?
On 11/7/06, Bill Marquette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/7/06, Tommaso Di Donato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/6/06, Bill Marquette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/5/06, Rob Terhaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I store my swapfile on a ram drive! I certainly hope that's a joke, cause it's the daftest thing I've ever heard otherwise!!! :) --Bill Mmmh, sorry for the stupid question... but why it is so nasty? I think it depends on what you do with your swap file. I.E. I used a ramdisk for creatind squid temporary dirs, and it works faster Please, let me understand what I should expect from the future :-) Thank you sooo much TomLet's see.The reason you are swapping is because you ran out of ram. #1 most likely reason you ran out of ram...you made a large ramdiskso you could put swap on it!It makes more sense to ADD ram to a boxthan to figure out a way to make swap faster (especially when the end result costs you RAM which you needed to eliminate the swap issue!)Squid has nothing to do with the OS swap file btw - unrelatedquestion.Sure, using a ramdisk for the squid cache will befaster...until you reboot and lose all the cache (and have to recreate the cache dir), then your browsing is slow again until the cache isbuilt back up.I could see putting a squid cache (or swap) on Craigsdevice though :)--BillI know not everyone in the world understands jerky american sarcasm, so just to clear things up... i was joking. :D I don't think freebsd will even let you use a ramfs drive to store swap.
Re: [pfSense Support] Minimium Hardware 96 MRAM?
LOL On 11/7/06, Rob Terhaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/7/06, Bill Marquette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/7/06, Tommaso Di Donato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/6/06, Bill Marquette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/5/06, Rob Terhaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I store my swapfile on a ram drive! I certainly hope that's a joke, cause it's the daftest thing I've ever heard otherwise!!! :) --Bill Mmmh, sorry for the stupid question... but why it is so nasty? I think it depends on what you do with your swap file. I.E. I used a ramdisk for creatind squid temporary dirs, and it works faster Please, let me understand what I should expect from the future :-) Thank you sooo much Tom Let's see. The reason you are swapping is because you ran out of ram. #1 most likely reason you ran out of ram...you made a large ramdisk so you could put swap on it! It makes more sense to ADD ram to a box than to figure out a way to make swap faster (especially when the end result costs you RAM which you needed to eliminate the swap issue!) Squid has nothing to do with the OS swap file btw - unrelated question. Sure, using a ramdisk for the squid cache will be faster...until you reboot and lose all the cache (and have to recreate the cache dir), then your browsing is slow again until the cache is built back up. I could see putting a squid cache (or swap) on Craigs device though :) --Bill I know not everyone in the world understands jerky american sarcasm, so just to clear things up... i was joking. :D I don't think freebsd will even let you use a ramfs drive to store swap. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [pfSense Support] Minimium Hardware 96 MRAM?
On 11/7/06, Rob Terhaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know not everyone in the world understands jerky american sarcasm, so just to clear things up... i was joking. :D I don't think freebsd will even let you use a ramfs drive to store swap. See now you've made a challenge ;-P I believe it will - not as a swap partition though. I don't feel like making a ramdisk, but the principle is the same and it doesn't matter where the dd takes place (or who owns the swapfile) ;) dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=1024 sudo mdconfig -a -t vnode -f swapfile sudo swapctl -a /dev/md1 swapctl -l Device: 1024-blocks Used: /dev/da0b 1021256 33960 /dev/md1 1024 0 ls -la swapfile -rw-r--r-- 1 billm billm 1048576 Nov 7 14:21 swapfile --Bill - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[pfSense Support] How do I relate the logged rule numbers to the rules show in the interface?
How do I relate the logged rule numbers to the rules show in the interface? I tried to look in archives and on forum, but did not find a match. Chuck Benson smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
[pfSense Support] Is there a way to see where the ftp-helper has connected to?
Is there a way to see where the ftp-helper has connected to? I see the log entry for the connection to the helper, but no indication of traffic from there to wherever it goes, nor does there appear to be any indication of where it was originally directed. Am I missing something? Chuck Benson smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: [pfSense Support] How do I relate the logged rule numbers to the rules show in the interface?
On 11/7/06, Benson, Chuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I relate the logged rule numbers to the rules show in the interface? I tried to look in archives and on forum, but did not find a match. Click on the box to the left of the rule in the firewall log. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [pfSense Support] How do I relate the logged rule numbers to the rules show in the interface?
I am looking at an external log. Chuck Benson -Original Message- From: Scott Ullrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 3:10 PM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] How do I relate the logged rule numbers to the rules show in the interface? On 11/7/06, Benson, Chuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I relate the logged rule numbers to the rules show in the interface? I tried to look in archives and on forum, but did not find a match. Click on the box to the left of the rule in the firewall log. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
