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The nano image is a raw image. You do not install it. You boot it and configure.

https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/install.html#embedded-vs-full

Thanks, burning the nano image onto another SD card directly and booting from that worked.

I just find it odd that the previous card failed botting after serial installation every time, and this one failed during installation when attempting to create partitions.

Have you tried installing from USB to the SD card?

Thats what I've been doing - put installation image (nano or serial) to usb, plug usb into apu4, boot from said usb and install to memory stick.

Installation goes well, but fails after rebooting as it could not read the boot disk.

Well, I put the nano image onto a usb an tried both ZFS and UFS, and both result in an unbootable media:

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Booting from Hard Disk...
Boot failed: could not read the boot disk


Any recommendations what could be causing this? As far as I know the memory card is ok, and I am using the correct image.

When I was installing pfSense a few years ago I never had these issues, would like to actually get to the part where I configure the router.

Thank you, I downloaded the serial image, not realizing I needed another one for SD cards.

You need a serial image for an APU device which only has got a serial console. This is independent of the storage medium. My APUs have an M.SATA SSD - they also use the serial image.

Haven't tested the nano image yet, but its description states "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."

So the nano is serial by default, while the other "serial" option seems to be aimed at mSata drives, not sd cards.

I missed it, thinking serial was enough when reading through the first three options.

Thank you, I downloaded the serial image, not realizing I needed another one for SD cards.

On my apu4, I've booted from a usb stick and installed the latest version of OPNsense onto my 16gb memory stick, but boot fails when selecting it.

I am still investigating, but wondering if ZFS does not support SD memory cards, or if there are other requirements?

I am looking into OPNsense after using PFsense for years. Hoping to get over the initial setup pains to get a full system working during Christmas.

I've already updated my bios to 4.17.0.3, went well via the live image.