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Hardware and Performance / Re: [HOWTO] Installing 17.7 (and probably above) on APU2/APU3 boards & SD card
« on: March 28, 2021, 03:31:16 am »
I've got a much older AMD Sempron 145 and have struggled immensely trying to get this running again. 18.1 worked once upon a time, until I finally borked it attempting and in-place upgrade from 18.1 -> 18.7 and during the next upgrade path (i believe to 19.x) everything went to hell and now I'm no longer able to boot the machine at all, as it continually locks up before I'm presented with the menu or login prompt. I've also tried to boot from USB sticks with 20.1 & 21.1 off of three separate brands of USB flash drive (16GB Lexar, 32GB SanDisk & 8GB off-brand generic), however I'd been attempting the VGA image. I guess I'll start the AMD64 serial image downloading. On my very last attempt I directly installed the 
This is the hardware I have successfully used in the past with OPNsense v17.x & 18.1: https://www.cnet.com/products/emachines-el1352g-01w-sempron-145-2-8-ghz-2-gb-500-gb/.
I'm open to suggestion, my FreeBSD abilities are obviously not great, but I'm been banging my head against the wall not knowing what searches to even proceed with for days and days now. Thank you to anyone who may be able to nudge me in the proper direction. Should I revert to a legacy version? Or find new hardware that's better than a 10+ year old single-core CPU with 2GB of RAM? Was hoping to turn this into a basic router capable of doing 100Mbps.
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OPNsense-21.1-OpenSSL-vga-amd64.img to a 500GB HDD, but that also fails with the following: This is the hardware I have successfully used in the past with OPNsense v17.x & 18.1: https://www.cnet.com/products/emachines-el1352g-01w-sempron-145-2-8-ghz-2-gb-500-gb/.
I'm open to suggestion, my FreeBSD abilities are obviously not great, but I'm been banging my head against the wall not knowing what searches to even proceed with for days and days now. Thank you to anyone who may be able to nudge me in the proper direction. Should I revert to a legacy version? Or find new hardware that's better than a 10+ year old single-core CPU with 2GB of RAM? Was hoping to turn this into a basic router capable of doing 100Mbps.