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Hardware and Performance / Re: MBR boot option for VGA install via USB stick please
« on: June 01, 2020, 07:13:35 pm »
Hi guys,
i will share my experience to you.
I spend a lot of time fiddling around for my good "old" LEX UNO based Securepoint firewall.
It has 4GB ram and 64bit CPU. So i thought good for opnsens.
Ok latest bios was from 2012 an no chance to get new one.
These box should be a replacement for my very old LEX UNO 32bit box with pfsense.
My first attempts writing an image to my USB-Stick where bad. I tried rufus and etcher.
Always the same "checksum error" on booting. It looks like both do something with the partition table.
So then i tried to remove the 8GB SSD out of the Box into e SATA USB adapter.
Booted from CD on another PC wit CD-Drive. Installed opensens on the SSD with MBR partition.
Than put it back in the Box. Finger cross. It boots up.
Everything was ok till i updated to 20.1.7. -> total mess.
I decided to do a fresh install again.
Now i tried another way ,i used USB Image Tool 1.76 fom http://www.alexpage.de
And surprise i was able to boot from my USB-Stick. (so now i put it in my safe )
I tried the same with pfsense, but no chance. But anyway. This is not really an issue
I will use opnsense because pfsense does not really support foreign hardware.
Also they decided to only support hardware encryption from 2.5 on. This is a big no go.
At the moment i stuck in opnsense with WIFI configuration. This was impossible for me to configure via WEBGUI. Always a lot of php errors. See my Post 79304. Also some entries are not editable because there are to small or content is missing. Also it is not possibel to assign a ath0_wlan0 addapter to an interface. It's not select able. Only the cable ports a visible.
If someone has a idea for this issue. Let me know.
Thanks
i will share my experience to you.
I spend a lot of time fiddling around for my good "old" LEX UNO based Securepoint firewall.
It has 4GB ram and 64bit CPU. So i thought good for opnsens.
Ok latest bios was from 2012 an no chance to get new one.
These box should be a replacement for my very old LEX UNO 32bit box with pfsense.
My first attempts writing an image to my USB-Stick where bad. I tried rufus and etcher.
Always the same "checksum error" on booting. It looks like both do something with the partition table.
So then i tried to remove the 8GB SSD out of the Box into e SATA USB adapter.
Booted from CD on another PC wit CD-Drive. Installed opensens on the SSD with MBR partition.
Than put it back in the Box. Finger cross. It boots up.
Everything was ok till i updated to 20.1.7. -> total mess.
I decided to do a fresh install again.
Now i tried another way ,i used USB Image Tool 1.76 fom http://www.alexpage.de
And surprise i was able to boot from my USB-Stick. (so now i put it in my safe )
I tried the same with pfsense, but no chance. But anyway. This is not really an issue
I will use opnsense because pfsense does not really support foreign hardware.
Also they decided to only support hardware encryption from 2.5 on. This is a big no go.
At the moment i stuck in opnsense with WIFI configuration. This was impossible for me to configure via WEBGUI. Always a lot of php errors. See my Post 79304. Also some entries are not editable because there are to small or content is missing. Also it is not possibel to assign a ath0_wlan0 addapter to an interface. It's not select able. Only the cable ports a visible.
If someone has a idea for this issue. Let me know.
Thanks