>I have seen some BIOS that would only boot from a USB key in that case >after a BIOS update and some option twiddling (though I don't recall what). > >We have also seen that some embedded devices require booting in packet >mode or nopacket mode, depending on the BIOS it could be one or the >other. This can be changed, but required plugging the device into >another FreeBSD box or another pfSense box and running: > >boot0cfg -o packet /dev/da0 > >Where packet can also be nopacket, and /dev/da0 is the full path to the >USB device as seen by the OS (check dmesg).
Wow, I don't have any bsd machines, lol. Can you reco what I should pull down to install on a recent desktop, with AHCI sata for example? >I don't recall what the RC1 images are, but the current nanobsd >snapshots should be using packet mode. > >Before doing much else, I'd also try a more recent snapshot than RC1. I didn't know there was anything newer except 2.0, which I read has all the embedded images not functional. Where do i get a more recent 1.2.3 image? Are you speaking of these: http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD_RELENG_7_2/pfSense_RELENG_1_2/nanobsd/ The pfSense-1.2.3-512mb-20090723-1908-nanobsd.img image didn’t hang the server but it just sat at a blinking cursor:) Thanks for all the advice! jlc
