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English Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: 172pilot on June 18, 2020, 11:33:44 pm
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Hi! Long time pfSense user here, converting to OpnSense because of current versions still supporting my old hardware..
I have a Watchguard x750e, and I was able to go through the install and get everything working yesterday, and then unfortunately, at some random time, I bumped the power switch (hardware precariously setup at my desk for testing!!)
NOW, I can't get this thing to boot! It comes up to the boot prompt, and the "spinning bar" starts, and then it either just reboots from there (about 90% of the time) or it freezes with a blank screen..
I am reasonably familiar with linux, but have never been a FreeBSD user, and know nothing about the boot process here. My thought is that I have a corrupt filesystem and need to fsck or similar, but I really dont know where to go with this.
I will probably reload from scratch, and just chalk up all my work so far as a learning experience.. it wont take long to reload.. ( will take longer to patch!) but I'm curious about 2 things.
First - Is there a better way out here? If this had happened on any random day after I put this firewall into use I'd have to scramble to get it working again (yes it's just for home, but family is a tough customer!)
and second - Is this typical?! I'm used to linux handling unexpected power failures better than this, and at least letting me get into single user mode to do some diagnosis, but I can't seem to get anywhere on this serial console! (I can get into BIOS setup, and even reset BIOS to defaults by removing battery!)
Thanks in advance! I look forward to using this - It looks really great!!
-Steve
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Hi 172pilot,
It would be useful to provide some details e.g. 20.1.7, installation CF or IDE/SATA HDD etc.
I have had issues when the IDE/SATA HDD was not properly secured in place and it caused a corruption to the bootloader and hence was not able to bootstrap the kernel etc.