Single User Mode

[cake]

I'm trying to talk a family member through reinstalling opnsense remotely. Its not going well.

How do you get into single user mode? I'm not getting a command prompt. Nothing that says login. Ctrl + Alt + F1 or F2 does nothing too (sometimes that works in Linux), just messages printed to screen (screeshot) This is 23.1 version.
Spacebar works to pause.

Also tried to install with fresh 23.7 vga img file, copied to thumb drive with dd, installer does not see the ssd drive when logging in via ssh installer@192.168.1.1. , it just shows the usb thumb drive. This is second day of messing around for a couple hours. My device is a qotom j1900 box.

Maybe the ssd is broken?

[CJ]

Did you press 2 after hitting the spacebar when the menu pops up?

Does the SSD show in the BIOS?  It's possible that it could have died.

[cake]

no luck so far. We have removed the msata drive and placed in a sata drive. The bios can see it.The opnsense install does not. Im using the vga image. Im going to have family member download a diffrent image and try that. Maybe the nano?

Pressing #2 causes the sysyem to hang for a long time, we are or I am expecting a prompt.
will the dvd iso write to a thumb drive?

[cake]

No luck with nano image. Here is screen shot.

root mount waiting for cam

I see that message allot.

I think i am going to find a older image and have them try that.
edit: I wonder if this is a freebsd issue or hardware with my china box Q190G4U

[newsense]

installer does not see the ssd drive when logging in via ssh installer@192.168.1.1. , it just shows the usb thumb drive

You were on the right track, proper installer and a ssd issue to troubleshoot. Either the drive is not installed properly or it's hosed or you have a BIOS issue -- try removing the battery with all things unplugged.

If still nothing try another SSD