[SOLVED] Cannot boot this version on the A10

[xaxero]

I have an issue booting the latest on a Deciso a10. I have 2 different boxes identical. 2 different USB disks. All show the same.

unzipped OPNsense-20.7-OpenSSL-serial-amd64.bz2 after checking the SHA256.

Remove all partitions from the  USB disk

jon@jon-MACH-WX9:~$ sudo dd if='/home/jon/Downloads/OPNsense-20.7-OpenSSL-serial-amd64.img' of=/dev/sda bs=16k;sync
[sudo] password for jon:         
114084+0 records in
114084+0 records out
1869152256 bytes (1.9 GB, 1.7 GiB) copied, 217.081 s, 8.6 MB/s
jon@jon-MACH-WX9:~$ screen /dev/ttyXRUSB0 115200

In every case even manual select of the USB drive it continues to boot from the HDD boot log follows.

I have done this many many times in the past so not sure what the issue is here.



Scan for option roms
Running option rom at c000:0003
pmm call arg1=1
pmm call arg1=0
pmm call arg1=1
pmm call arg1=0
Searching bootorder for: /rom@genroms/pxe.rom

Press ESC for boot menu.

Select boot device:

1. AHCI/0: TS128GSSD420K ATA-9 Hard-Disk (119 GiBytes)
2. USB MSC Drive USB Flash DISK 1100
3. iPXE (PCI 00:00.0)
4. Payload [memtest]

Searching bootorder for: HALT
drive 0x000f3280: PCHS=0/0/0 translation=lba LCHS=1024/255/63 s=31703040
drive 0x000f32b0: PCHS=16383/16/63 translation=lba LCHS=1024/255/63 s=250069680
Space available for UMB: c1000-ee800, f0000-f3280
Returned 253952 bytes of ZoneHigh
e820 map has 7 items:
  0: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 = 1 RAM
  1: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 = 2 RESERVED
  2: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 = 2 RESERVED
  3: 0000000000100000 - 00000000df175000 = 1 RAM
  4: 00000000df175000 - 00000000e0000000 = 2 RESERVED
  5: 00000000f8000000 - 00000000fc000000 = 2 RESERVED
  6: 0000000100000000 - 0000000120000000 = 1 RAM
enter handle_19:
  NULL
Booting from Hard Disk...
Booting from 0000:7c00
/boot/config: -S115200 -D

[franco]

SD card? You need to update the BIOS to the most recent version first.


Cheers,
Franco

[xaxero]

Yup that fixed it - Thank you and Jos for your help

[franco]

Yay, thanks for confirming :)