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I am trying to figure out what I am doing wrong. I downloaded and tried all the images and they appear to be disk images like PFSense, and not actual installers. I'm using rufus to write it. It's going on a Lanner Electronics FW-7551B-NG1 (like the Netgate 7551)

dvd: ISO installer image with live system capabilities running in VGA mode. On amd64, UEFI boot is supported as well.
vga: USB installer image with live system capabilities running in VGA mode as GPT boot. On amd64, UEFI boot is supported as well.
serial: USB installer image with live system capabilities running in serial console (115200) mode as MBR boot.
nano: a preinstalled serial image for USB sticks, SD or CF cards as MBR boot. These images are 3G in size and automatically adapt to the installed media size after first boot.

Are these similar to PFSense in that you get a menu to install at the start of the boot and I'm missing that somewhere? ( I installed pFSense no issues  pfSense-CE-memstick-serial-2.5.1-RELEASE-amd64.img)

I need a serial image, no VGA on this box, preferably cf card, but I can go SATA (non efi). If I'm missing it, is it because of my older system's inability to UEFI boot ? If so, can I disable it? Is the serial console enabled on anything but the serial and nano image?

Thanks for any help. I know I'm missing something obvious somewhere.

I will give that a shot. I do have linux on my laptop.

But... I took that Rufus created usb stick and was able to boot it up on my laptop, so I'm thinking my issue is with EFI and the lack of it on the Lanner FW-7551a. 

I think it may not have an EFI bios, and may be legacy mbr install only.

in which case, is there a legacy install-only  image available?

So the thinking here is, I should try ssh on the vga or DVD image? Or should I try an older image such as 20.1?

I'd like to use OPNSense on a Lanner fw-7551a, which appears to be identical to the Netgate FW-7551 .  No VGA, only serial .

I can't get OPNSense to boot off a USB drive after burning the img with Rufus. I tried 3 different USB drives, different brands and capacities, same issue. I even tried    OPNSense 21.1, can't get that to boot either.

As a test, I was able to install pfsense using Rufus , burining the img to a usb drive with  no issues. 

I'd rather use OPNSense,
The BIOS is set to boot from USB key, and like I said, the pfsense boots fine.   
Any suggestions?

Thanks Bruce