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Jürgen Steinblock
Asked: 2014-05-08 05:37:05 +0800 CST

pfsense live cd and boot options

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I donwloaded pfsense live cd 2.1.3 and now I want to run pfsense from an usb cdrom drive.

It loads a while and than crahses with "unable to mount ..."

I know I have to choose boot option 3 in order to boot from an usb cdrom but I don't see this menu.

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The computer just boots. Do I need to press a specfic key to bring up this menu or is this maybe missing on the current iso?

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  1. Best Answer

    Solved it,

    to boot from USB Drive, you need boot option number #3

    https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Boot_Troubleshooting#Booting_from_USB

    Booting from USB

    If the boot stops with a mountroot error while booting off the live CD, usually with USB CD/DVD drives, escape to the loader prompt and run the following: set kern.cam.boot_delay="10000" boot

    On 2.0 this is on the boot menu - option #3 to boot from USB devices.

    I just thought the prompt would come very early, like grub or something. But it turned out I had to wait about five minutes (old hardware with USB 1.1 only) for it to show up. And it vanishes after 10 seconds, I think I just missed it the first few tries.

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