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17.7 Legacy Series / no reboot with 17.7 on APU 1C4
« on: December 18, 2017, 12:16:55 pm »
Dear all,
for some time now I have been trying to switch from pfsense to opnsense for various reasons.
The used hardware is a bit older, an APU 1C4 with 16 GB mSATA SSD.
It runs with pfsense for years without problems.
Unfortunately, I can't get the APU.1C4 work with actual opnsense despite intensive research and several attempts.
Recently there have been repeated reports of problems with the APU hardware (and BSD 11), but so far I haven't found something that hits me exactly.
However, I am not an expert in this field, so it is possible that I have overlooked something.
By the way, BIOS of the APU is flashed to the newest available version.
The installation with the current 17.7.5 installation image (serial, amd64) via USB works fine.
The installer also writes the image to the SSD and the reboot from the SSD works without problems.
(without plugin os-boot-delay or other special settings)
The boot process works until the installed version 17.7.5 is updated to 17.7.8 or 17.7.10 .
After updating, the machine is not booting anymore.
I apologize for writing this from my memory and have no exact message available.
The Error message was something like: No bootable disk.
So it seems, that the BIOS doesn't recognize the GPT?
I couldn't find anything which could help in this situation.
For me it seems that the GPT or something else needed for booting is written erroneous to the SSD.
However, if you start the console (in a running opnsense 17.7.5 without any other update) and switch with
opnsense-update -t opnsense-devel
to the current development branch (believe it was 18.1-b199), then the reboot works fine!!
However, with this version the web GUI is no longer accessible so I decided not to follow the devel-branch anyway.
I am wondering, if anybody out there is able to get this run on a APU 1C4?
If a additional tests would be helpfull, I will try to do.
Cheers,
Thies
for some time now I have been trying to switch from pfsense to opnsense for various reasons.
The used hardware is a bit older, an APU 1C4 with 16 GB mSATA SSD.
It runs with pfsense for years without problems.
Unfortunately, I can't get the APU.1C4 work with actual opnsense despite intensive research and several attempts.
Recently there have been repeated reports of problems with the APU hardware (and BSD 11), but so far I haven't found something that hits me exactly.
However, I am not an expert in this field, so it is possible that I have overlooked something.
By the way, BIOS of the APU is flashed to the newest available version.
The installation with the current 17.7.5 installation image (serial, amd64) via USB works fine.
The installer also writes the image to the SSD and the reboot from the SSD works without problems.
(without plugin os-boot-delay or other special settings)
The boot process works until the installed version 17.7.5 is updated to 17.7.8 or 17.7.10 .
After updating, the machine is not booting anymore.
I apologize for writing this from my memory and have no exact message available.
The Error message was something like: No bootable disk.
So it seems, that the BIOS doesn't recognize the GPT?
I couldn't find anything which could help in this situation.
For me it seems that the GPT or something else needed for booting is written erroneous to the SSD.
However, if you start the console (in a running opnsense 17.7.5 without any other update) and switch with
opnsense-update -t opnsense-devel
to the current development branch (believe it was 18.1-b199), then the reboot works fine!!
However, with this version the web GUI is no longer accessible so I decided not to follow the devel-branch anyway.
I am wondering, if anybody out there is able to get this run on a APU 1C4?
If a additional tests would be helpfull, I will try to do.
Cheers,
Thies