Timeline for Bios recognizes USB drive and partitions, but won’t boot from it
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| Jun 6, 2022 at 23:54 | history | edited | jklaz | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 6, 2022 at 5:26 | comment | added | Tom Yan | Since your UEFI has CSM, you might also want to consider preparing the drive for BIOS/legacy booting and deal with it. | |
| Jun 6, 2022 at 5:23 | comment | added | Tom Yan | Not really familiar with pfsense/BSD. It might be possible to boot the iso file with the help of an "external" bootloader like grub (which has variant/target for 32-bit UEFI). Also see Ventoy, maybe. | |
| Jun 6, 2022 at 2:23 | comment | added | jklaz | @TomYan is there a solution if it is 32-bit UEFI? I bought a new flashdrive and made a new installer. UEFI Partition 1 and UEFI Partition 3 show up, but it still will not boot into either one | |
| Jun 5, 2022 at 1:33 | comment | added | Tom Yan |
Besides, if you wish to boot with UEFI mode, choose the (correct) boot entry that has the prefix UEFI:.
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| Jun 5, 2022 at 1:26 | comment | added | Tom Yan | It might have rubbish 32-bit UEFI (yes that does NOT have anything to do with whether your CPU is 64-bit). | |
| Jun 5, 2022 at 0:58 | answer | added | Blindspots | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 3, 2022 at 20:43 | comment | added | jklaz | @Ramhound I tried turning off Secure Boot while keeping CSM on, and vice versa, neither booted into the installer. Also tried turning off both, same behavior | |
| Jun 3, 2022 at 20:28 | comment | added | Ramhound | @jklaz - Secure Boot is incompatible with CSM | |
| Jun 3, 2022 at 20:27 | comment | added | jklaz | @Moab For the sake of clarity, I just removed the USB from the mini pc, put it in the back of my gaming pc, booted up into the bios, chose the "Lexar USB Flash Drive 1100" on the boot override. The pfsense installer then loads. My gaming pcs specs are [Gigabyte B450M DS3H Wifi, Ryzen 7 3700x, 32gb ddr4 3000mhz, gigabyte rtx 3070]. So yeah the USB installer works for that pc. | |
| Jun 3, 2022 at 20:17 | comment | added | Moab | Does it boot on any other PC? | |
| Jun 3, 2022 at 17:59 | comment | added | jklaz | ^ Under CSM configuration, there is a 'Storage' option to change UEFI to Legacy. Would that do it? Also there is 1 option for secure boot, and that is enabled | |
| Jun 3, 2022 at 17:53 | comment | added | jklaz | The default settings have a 'Boot Option Filter' of UEFI and Legacy, which is what I was changing, but now that I think about it, probably doesn't do anything except filter the list. I am not sure if there are any other options I've looked at basically every option | |
| Jun 3, 2022 at 17:44 | comment | added | Ramhound | I don’t see where you have UEFI mode enabled or Legacy Mode disabled (no screenshot explicitly indicates which mode you are in). | |
| Jun 3, 2022 at 17:28 | history | edited | jklaz | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 3, 2022 at 17:15 | comment | added | jklaz | @Ramhound I edited the post above with more info and screenshots. Did a wipe of the bios settings, did a fresh etcher install, plugged in the usb on first boot, and took pictures of it all. | |
| Jun 3, 2022 at 17:14 | history | edited | jklaz | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 3, 2022 at 16:31 | comment | added | Ramhound | I feel comfortable in an assumption that pfsense supports UEFI mode, so why are you enabling CSM, on newer hardware? Since I know nothing about the hardware you tested the installation media on, and it's not working on the hardware you are trying to use, I would need to know the settings you used within Rufus. My suggestion is just use Etcher instead. Screenshots of the drive listed, with a notation, indicating if Legacy Mode is enabled or disabled would also be helpful. | |
| Jun 3, 2022 at 16:25 | history | edited | jklaz | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Jun 3, 2022 at 16:23 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Jun 3, 2022 at 16:23 | history | asked | jklaz | CC BY-SA 4.0 |