Re: [pfSense Support] power-out and Alix-boards

2010-09-12 Thread Michel Servaes
Hi, I am a reseller of Alix boxes and one of my client has also complained about problem with Power Outage and Alix not rebooting. When you talk about power outage and Alix board, I think all kind of weird thing can happen… If you want a more secure environment, don't buy Alix board, buy

Re: [pfSense Support] power-out and Alix-boards

2010-09-12 Thread Jim Pingle
On 9/12/2010 8:44 AM, Michel Servaes wrote: Checking via the serial-cable, I can go into shell... but trying to do a Set LAN ip, won't work at all... (it just comes back at me telling me that /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: shared object libxml2.so.5 not found, required by php). That has less to do

Re: [pfSense Support] power-out and Alix-boards

2010-09-11 Thread bsd
Hi, I am a reseller of Alix boxes and one of my client has also complained about problem with Power Outage and Alix not rebooting. When you talk about power outage and Alix board, I think all kind of weird thing can happen… If you want a more secure environment, don't buy Alix board, buy

Re: [pfSense Support] power-out and Alix-boards

2010-09-10 Thread Paul Mansfield
On 10/09/10 03:02, Kevin Tollison wrote: I would look at the brand of CF card. ... I remember Kingston being one of them I will never use kingston after reading this: http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=918 - To

[pfSense Support] power-out and Alix-boards

2010-09-09 Thread Michel Servaes
Hi, I never installed an UPS on a firewall device before (eg. dlink, linksys, netgear)... but it seems to me that when using an Alix + CF card solution, together with pfSense... you better install an UPS in between. I myself have pulled the DC-plug multiple times at home, without any issue

Re: [pfSense Support] power-out and Alix-boards

2010-09-09 Thread Bob Gustafson
Do you remember what BIOS version you have on the Alix boards? Brand/Type of CF? Rev version of the Alix board? I am running Alix boards too. Bob G On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 16:18 +0200, Michel Servaes wrote: Hi, I never installed an UPS on a firewall device before (eg. dlink, linksys,

Re: [pfSense Support] power-out and Alix-boards

2010-09-09 Thread Beat Siegenthaler
On 09.09.10 16:18, Michel Servaes wrote: What could be the cause here ? Should I install an UPS... or should I buy better CF-cards ? As long You use the CF read-only I am pretty shure there is another problem... - To

Re: [pfSense Support] power-out and Alix-boards

2010-09-09 Thread Michel Servaes
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Beat Siegenthaler bsi...@gmail.com wrote:  On 09.09.10 16:18, Michel Servaes wrote:  What could be the cause here ? Should I install an UPS... or should I buy better CF-cards ? As long You use the CF read-only I am pretty shure there is another problem... PC

Re: [pfSense Support] power-out and Alix-boards

2010-09-09 Thread Bob Gustafson
No boot device usually means the first 512 bytes of the CF disk have been disturbed. If you have the failed CF, try the following commands: (on Linux or Mac) put the CF disk into a reader and do df From the resulting output, try to figure out your device name. It will probably be the

Re: [pfSense Support] power-out and Alix-boards

2010-09-09 Thread Michel Servaes
As long You use the CF read-only I am pretty shure there is another problem... --- I am a bit worried about the fact that the CF card should be set read-only. To my knowledge, when we install the embedded image, isn't the CF card mounted read-only by default (only when changing

Re: [pfSense Support] power-out and Alix-boards

2010-09-09 Thread Michel Servaes
Wow, thanks for this one... I replaced the Alix board, and took the broken one with me... I'll dive into the CF-card tomorrow to see what went wrong... The thing that disturbs me a bit, is that I had two different locations - with a week interval, with exactly the same issue after a power

Re: [pfSense Support] power-out and Alix-boards

2010-09-09 Thread David Burgess
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Michel Servaes mic...@mcmc.be wrote: I am a bit worried about the fact that the CF card should be set read-only. If I may paraphrase Bob, I thought he was meaning that because/if you are using the embedded version, the problem you describe must be due to some

Re: [pfSense Support] power-out and Alix-boards

2010-09-09 Thread Bob Gustafson
I don't know the significance of 'embedded' in the context of CF cards. If you can change configuration, this somehow means that the CF disk must be writable.. On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 14:30 -0600, David Burgess wrote: On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Michel Servaes mic...@mcmc.be wrote: I am

Re: [pfSense Support] power-out and Alix-boards

2010-09-09 Thread David Burgess
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Bob Gustafson bob...@rcn.com wrote: I don't know the significance of 'embedded' in the context of CF cards. Sorry, I meant to say I was paraphrasing Beat, not Bob. The pfsense embedded version, which is recommended for CF installs, mounts the filesystem read-only,

Re: [pfSense Support] power-out and Alix-boards

2010-09-09 Thread Kevin Tollison
. --Original Message-- From: David Burgess To: support@pfsense.com ReplyTo: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] power-out and Alix-boards Sent: Sep 9, 2010 5:15 PM On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Bob Gustafson bob...@rcn.com wrote: I don't know the significance of 'embedded

Re: [pfSense Support] power-out and Alix-boards

2010-09-09 Thread Chris Buechler
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Michel Servaes mic...@mcmc.be 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