Downloading OpnSense but appears as pfsense+ on boot

[OpnNoob]

Hey All!

I'm (very) new to all of this and probably more excited than I should be to embark on this journey.

I got an acceptable device and have been trying to get OpnSense going. I have downloaded OPNsense-23.7-vga-amd64.img from several mirrors. I flash it to my USB using balenaEtcher, mount it to my appliance and boot. Everything boots fine... except I catch the pfsense+ title during boot and end up in the pfsense menu.

Am I dong something wrong? I've followed the process (and videos) several times and get the same result. I haven't been able to find anything searching either (though there are a crazy amount of results relating to OpnSense and pfsense so answers may be buried).

Thanks much!

Noob

[Patrick M. Hausen]

You are not booting from USB but from some image the device manufacturer preinstalled, probably.

[OpnNoob]

Hmm I'll try to interrupt the boot and see if I can't change the boot location.

[DEC670airp414user]

wipe your media
diskpart
list disk
select disk 1 (or appropriate)
clean

exit

and re write the usb drive

[Greg_E]

When I really want a disk erased, I boot up one of these https://partedmagic.com/ wipe the disk completely. It's worth the $15 one time fee to help cover what they spend to make it secure boot compatible. Though as a collection of open source tools, and an open source OS, there probably should be a free download or at least link to the sources.

But yes you can boot a Windows rescue disk and use diskpart, but the clean option only wipes the table, not the actual information, you need to use "clean all" to zero it out and it's far slower than some of the methods available in the wipe disk tool inside the parted magic disk.