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Any update on this?  I'm installing on a Watchguard X750 and am having the same problem.. After a reboot or two, I seem to be getting some corruption that isn't fixed (regardless whether it's orderly shutdown or not).  Based on this thread, I did a full upgrade from the console, and upon first boot, it was completely unable to boot..  Very strange!

TIA..

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