Hi, I know that OpenBSD can be further tweaked, so that even / is on a memory filesystem: http://techblagh.blogspot.com/2008/08/installing-openbsd-43-on-soekris-5501.html http://wtf.hijacked.us/wiki/index.php/OpenBSD_Soekris_Read_Only_Root
However, I'm not sure or aware if you could do it on pfSense. Best regards, Nikola Gyurov On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Giles Coochey <gi...@coochey.net> wrote: > On 15/09/2013 13:55, Giles Coochey wrote: > > [26/09/2012] wrote: >>Hi all, >>after following all the recent discussions about pfSense on here, I thought >> it sounded quite interesting and wanted to try it out and see how I like it >> - >which is probably quite an interesting idea especially since at this >> time, I honestly don't know a thing about BSD-based systems just yet. >>Since I wanted pfSense to boot from the internal MSATA flash module and not >> from a USB stick, I did the following: >>1. Downloaded the file pfSense-2.0.1-RELEASE-4g-i386-nanobsd.img.gz >>2. Copied the file to a USB stick. >>3. PXE-booted the Debian installer in rescue mode, so I could get to a >> shell on the Net6501. >>4. Mounted the USB stick and copied the image file to the flash module >> using zcat and dd. >>5. Changed Baud rate to 9600 in Com BIOS. >>6. Rebooted and saw that FreeBSD was booting on the console. >>Unfortunately, the boot process seems to hang. The last output I get is >> this: >>Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]... >>After that, there is no more input on the serial console whatsoever - no >> error messages or anything like that. What am I doing wrong? >>Thanks for any help from all you pfSense experts! :-) >>Robin >>-------------- next part -------------- >>An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >>URL: >> http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/attachments/20120926/487e3008/attachment.html > > I've just done a install to a SSD on a 6501-70 and I'm hanging at the same > point when trying to boot off the SSD > > i.e. it hangs at: > > Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]... . > - > > I was wondering if you managed to fix your problem and could give any > pointers? > > I ended up putting the mSATA into a normal box with VGA etc... and running > the install for the 2.1 pfsense release for i386. Then moving the mSATA disk > to the Soekris. > I had to correct /etc/fstab to mount the root correctly. > > All working! > > While I could get PXE boot running, dd'ing images to the SSD didn't appear > to work, and it seems that is the issue somewhat. I wanted to avoid moving > the mSATA to another machine as it (a laptop) doesn't give the best access > to it (need to remove the keyboard). > > Does anyone have a list of tweaks for pfsense when using SSDs? I've selected > the "Embedded" kernel during the install and enabled "Use memory file system > for /tmp and /var" within pfsense webgui, just wondering if there is > anything else that might prolong the SSD lifetime? > > -- > Regards, > > Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS > NetSecSpec Ltd > +44 (0) 8444 780677 > +44 (0) 7983 877438 > http://www.coochey.net > http://www.netsecspec.co.uk > gi...@coochey.net > > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
