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I want to protect my home network.  Sophos firewall on an older pc was recommended, so I am giving it a try.  To this point I have not succeeded in getting an installation to boot.  Previously, I posted the following:

Hey All,

I am trying to install XG Home ( SW-19.0.0_GA-317 ) on an older laptop.  Once the install is complete I reboot and GRUB loads and presents the image to be booted.  I select and hit enter and it returns a non-blinking cursor.  There it stays.

I have tried many BIOS configurations :

Boot Mode > Legacy Support and UEFI

Boot Priority > UEFI First and Legacy First

AMD Platform Security Processor > Enabled and Disabled

All with the same results through multiple installs. The only thing I can think of is that I have the wrong iso for what I want to do or AMD is not Intel enough.

Sorry about the quality of the pictures, it's the screen on the laptop



After reading many more posts I downloaded a new ISO and tried again.  This install at least got me to boot to an error message:  PXE-E61: media test failure . I have since made many changes in bios mostly with the same results.

 Here is my question. Is there a forum for newbies? I have years working with OS's and hardware but need help with this.



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  • Thank you Ian.  added 4444 to address back on my chores.  I found a guy on youtube ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_BFjeRKvoA ) who did a step by step and some follow up as well.  He did the install without the internet connection. 

    I rebooted my machine without the internet plugged in and went through the offline config followed by reboot.  Turns out that in spite of the error messages the registration process went through, because when I logged into the web console I was already registered.

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