[Resolved] opnsense-importer fails; tries to mount USB Drive as a CD Drive?

[rkubes]

I'm trying to get the opnsense-importer to work to test out my DR process.

When I boot from the "vga" 23.7 flash drive, it gets to the point where I interrupt to use the importer.

It then properly lists my thumb drive as device "da0"

However, when I type "da0" as the device to use, it tries to use "mount_cd9660" to mount it and of course fails - then complains that it can't find the conf/config.xml file (because it never properly mounted the USB drive).

Does anyone know why this occurs or any workarounds for it?


edit:
I was able to figure out the root issue. The USB drive I was using was formatted with a GPT table, I found I needed to reformat it as MBR and was able to get it working again.

It's odd since in the VM I was testing it was working as a GPT formatted drive, but on the actual hardware it was failing.

[ChrisC]

I had exactly the same issue with the "dvd" version of the 23.7 .ISO last night.
Unfortunately due to time pressure (i'd broken the firewall some how by applying the latest updates!) I gave up and imported the .xml file via the web gui after opnsense had installed

Could someone mention this problem in the docs as it's not obvious, and in windows, there is no easy way of telling if a USB stick is MBR or GPT?

[cookiemonster]

https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/install.html#opnsense-importer "the docs" states :
1. We must have a 2nd USB drive formatted with FAT or FAT32 File system.

[ChrisC]

It was FAT32.
It was the partition table that was wrong.
The documentation doesn't mention anything about that.