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Title: Optiplex SFF 7070 - No boot from internal SSD?
Post by: chemlud on March 18, 2025, 11:39:18 AM
Hy!

Needed fresh device, so I bought a used Optiplex SFF 7070 and updated the BIOS to latest. Switched to legacy boot in BIOS (needed for OPNsense, right?) and tried to boot from internal SSD. No luck.

In BIOS I found the bad news: No legacy boot from internal SSD/HDD/M2 whatever. Only UEFI. So I will have to use a SATA-USB3 adapter to run my OPNsense? Really?

Any work-around known? Downgrading BIOS maybe?

Desperate....
Title: Re: Optiplex SFF 7070 - No boot from internal SSD?
Post by: patient0 on March 18, 2025, 11:56:56 AM
Quote from: chemlud on March 18, 2025, 11:39:18 AMSwitched to legacy boot in BIOS (needed for OPNsense, right?)
UEFI is certainly supported, see the installation images https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/install.html#installation-images. Three of the four are supporting UEFI.

Which installation image did you use? And did you give it a go in UEFI mode at all?
Title: Re: Optiplex SFF 7070 - No boot from internal SSD?
Post by: chemlud on March 18, 2025, 12:01:09 PM
No, had in the back of my head: Legacy needed. And the '"old" install I wanted to use is legacy. Would need a fresh install with UEFI and import config, OK, that would be a viable solution...

;-)
Title: Re: Optiplex SFF 7070 - No boot from internal SSD?
Post by: patient0 on March 18, 2025, 12:19:40 PM
You right, you can't use an older, legacy image I guess - not sure when UEFI support made it into OPNsense, since version 19 oder 20?

QuoteWould need a fresh install with UEFI and import config
Have you taken the SSD from another device with OPNsense already installed?
Title: Re: Optiplex SFF 7070 - No boot from internal SSD?
Post by: chemlud on March 18, 2025, 01:38:08 PM
Sure. Done a dozend times without problems. No UEFI trash here until now....
Title: Re: Optiplex SFF 7070 - No boot from internal SSD?
Post by: patient0 on March 18, 2025, 01:45:25 PM
Quote from: chemlud on March 18, 2025, 01:38:08 PMSure. Done a dozend times without problems. No UEFI trash here until now....
I see, you could check what models are supported by coreboot and get one of them. The 7070 is not on it though, only the 7020 and 9020 (https://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2024/05/23/coreboot-24-05-release/).

Or you can try if BIOS downgrade as you mentioned in your first post, no idea if that's a path worth going.
Title: Re: Optiplex SFF 7070 - No boot from internal SSD?
Post by: chemlud on March 18, 2025, 03:32:37 PM
Apparently Dell took away legacy boot from certain Opti's in the past, from what the interwebs tell. Pain!

Have here an Opti SFF 7020, don't know if I will test Coreboot with that.

Ah, not UEFI is the problem, but secure boot and OPNsense

https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=42504.0
Title: Re: Optiplex SFF 7070 - No boot from internal SSD?
Post by: Patrick M. Hausen on March 18, 2025, 03:46:25 PM
Quote from: chemlud on March 18, 2025, 03:32:37 PMAh, not UEFI is the problem, but secure boot and OPNsense

Can't you disable secure boot on that device?
Title: Re: Optiplex SFF 7070 - No boot from internal SSD?
Post by: chemlud on March 18, 2025, 05:09:04 PM
..is an option in Dell BIOS iirc. Will try within the next weeks, very busy these days.
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