First time install problem: Booting from USB stick hangs

[Josh]

I have been using Sophos UTM in my home network for a few years but decided to give OPNSense a try.

So, I downloaded the 18.7 VGA AMD64 image file and burned it into a USB3 stick with Rufus. Booting from the USB stick started normally (at least to my eyes), but it hang almost immediately.

All I got into the console screen was:

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>> FreeBSD EFI boot block
Loader path: /boot/loader.efi

Initializing modules: ZFS UFS
Probing 14 block devices........*........ done
  ZFS found no pools
  UFS found 1 partition
Consoles: EFI console
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Then, after a few minutes a reboot occurs, with exactly the same results, and again and again...

I was not able to find a solution neither in the wiki nor by searching the forum. My apologies if I'm missing something obvious here.

The HW is a Dell Optiplex 7010 SFF with one 160GB HDD.

[malkovich78]

Hi,

I run across the same problem installing OPNsense on an old device; it seems USB booting has some bugs in current OPNsense images.

The only way I was able to perform installation was using first a FreeBSD Release Mini-Memstick image and later
installing OPNsense using opnsense-bootstrap method:

https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=4526.0

https://github.com/opnsense/update/blob/master/README.md

Hope this is usefull and saves time to others.

Regards.