OPNsense aarch64 firmware repository

[rusli]

Maurice,

Since when I posted on github???  Maybe you got the wrong person. How many people in the world have the same name as mine?
My sincere apologise.
Everyone makes mistakes.

[Maurice]

OPNsense 26.7 aarch64 packages, sets and sample VM images released.

https://opnsense-update.walker.earth/FreeBSD:15:aarch64/26.7/

https://github.com/maurice-w/opnsense-vm-images/releases/tag/26.7

[franco]

Nice, works like a charm <3

[durgesh]

Hi Maurice,

First of all, thank you for your excellent work on bringing OPNsense to ARM64. I've been successfully running OPNsense 26.1 on a Raspberry Pi 5 (8 GB) inside an Incus VM with two virtual NICs (WAN and LAN) connected to separate VLANs, and it has been working very well.

I recently tried installing OPNsense 26.7 on a fresh FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p1 (PkgBase) ARM64 installation using the documented bootstrap method:

fetch https://raw.githubusercontent.com/opnsense/update/master/src/bootstrap/opnsense-bootstrap.sh.in
sh ./opnsense-bootstrap.sh.in -r 26.7 -A maurice-w -R opnsense-core

During the pkg delete -fa phase, the bootstrap fails with:

ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libcrypto.so.35" not found, required by "certctl"
pkg: POST-DEINSTALL script failed

The bootstrap then continues removing packages until even basic utilities are gone, eventually resulting in errors such as:

rm: not found

At that point, the FreeBSD installation is no longer usable.

I reproduced the issue multiple times on a clean installation and also captured a full sh -x bootstrap log if it would be helpful.

Is there an additional step required for FreeBSD 15.1/26.7, or could this be a regression in the bootstrap process?

Thank you again for all the work you put into maintaining these ARM64 builds.

Best regards,
Durgesh

[Maurice]

Durgesh,

Thanks for the heads up. To be honest, I didn't test the bootstrap method with 15.1 / 26.7. And it seems possible no-one has, because it doesn't work on amd64 either - at least in my quick test with an amd64 VM (FreeBSD-15.1-RELEASE-amd64-BASIC-CLOUDINIT-ufs). So apparently not an issue specific to my builds.

You may want to open an issue on https://github.com/opnsense/update.

For now, I'll remove the bootstrap instructions. Since you're using virtualization, you can use a 26.7 VM image. No need to bootstrap from FreeBSD.

[durgesh]

Hi Maurice,
Thank you, I imported your VM image on pi5 8GB and it worked fine.

I will open an issue on https://github.com/opnsense/update.


Thanks again for wonderful work.