OPNSense 21.7 -> Create USB Stick with Rufus / belenaEtcher

[MBfromOK]

I have downloaded the OPNsense-21.7-OpenSSL-dvd-amd64.iso.bz2 from all 3 US Mirrors and when I try to "burn" the image to my flash drive I get the following errors:

Rufus:
This image is either non-bootable, or it uses a boot or compression method that is not supported by Rufus...

belenaEtcher:
Missing partition table
It looks like this is not a bootable image.  The image does not appear to contain a partition table, and might not be recognized or bootable by your device.

I downloaded OPNsense-21.7-OpenSSL-vga-amd64.img and successfully burned it, but then the UFS installer shows the cursor block and stalls or infinitely waits (unless you connect / disconnect a device or connection like the ethernet or USB installer disk)

[mb]

@MBfromOK, do you happen to have any igb(4) ethernet on the device you're installing OPNsense?

[MBfromOK]

I have no idea what that is, I am on Cable Internet, and have RealTek and Intel NIC's in this machine.

[MBfromOK]

While the original report is not resolved I now have a working firewall by using the VGA installer, I was never able to get the ISO.bz to not give an error.

To bypass the install freeze I wiped all partitions on the drive (Possibly not needed), choose the 3rd option on the install menu (not UFS or ZFS) > Picked guided > Picked my Drive > and then told it to take the whole drive.

Everything went smooth after that with the exception that it didn't create a UEFI boot entry in the BIOS, I removed all the entries that were there, created a new one, accepted default values, then browsed to the efi\boot\ and loaded the efi file available there... OPNSense then booted as expected.

@mb thanks for your reply!

[Patrick M. Hausen]

You did uncompress the bz2 file first, didn't you?