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Trouble booting from USB to install the latest XG Home Edition SW-19.0.1_MR-1-365

ken Mills

Hi all,

I just purchased a new piece of hardware to replace my dying XG Home box.

I downloaded the latest SW-19.0.1_MR-1-365 and burned to USB with RUFUS.  I can't seem to boot from it, it just hangs.

The device in question is here:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/765856572.html

Specs:

Basic Information:

CPU

Onboard Intel Celeron J6412

TDP

10W

Motherboard

120 x 120mm customized size

BIOS

American Megatrends Inc

Chipset

Elkhart Lake

Memory

1* SO-DIMM DDR4 Slot,Support 4GB/8GB

DDR4-2133, LPDDR3-1866, DDR3L-1600

OS

Windows 10/Linux/WES10

PXE

YES

Audio

Intel High Definition Audio Controller

Network

2 x Realtek 811H Gigabit Ethernet Controller

10/100Mbps/1000Mbps BaseT LAN

Video

Intel® UHD Graphics

Input/output port:

Switch

1 x Power On/Off Switch

Power

1 x 12V DC In

USB

2 x USB2.0, 2 x USB3.0

Display

2 x HDMI 1.4, 1 x DP 1.2

LAN

2 x RJ45 Giga LAN

Audio

1 x MIC, 1 x SPK

COM

2 x DB9 RS232 COM

Storage:

MSATA

1 x M-SATA3.0 slot for MSATA SSD, support 6Gb/s

M.2

1 x M.2 slot for NVME 2280 SSD

SATA

1 x SATA3.0 slot for SATA HDD or SSD, , support 6Gb/s

Wi-Fi:

Module

1 x M.2 2230 slot for Wi-Fi & Bluetooth module

Antenna

2 x inner RF cables and 2 x external antennas

Could it be that the chipset is incompatible?  Or perhaps a setting in the AMI BIOS?

I have :

Disabled secure Boot

I tried MBR burn and GPT Burn

Disabling TPM

Nothing seems to allow me to boot

My next test will be to find n external USB drive that I can burn the ISO to.  I am thinking the UEFI boot may be the issue...  However, i can boot a Windows installer no problem on the device.

Any insights or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers,

Ken



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  • +1

    Hi,

    xg sfos currently does not support uefi boot.

    ian

    XG115W - v19.5.1 mr-1 - Home

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  • 0 in reply to rfcat_vk

    Aha, OK thanks!

    I just need to figure out ow to disable UEFI boot or create a USB boot drive that is not UEFI...

  • 0

    Does the BIOS have a setting for Legacy, or Legacy+UEFI boot?

    I had issues attempting to boot from a USB drive as well when installing XG

    The solution is to choose at the boot menu...non-UEFI USB, or "not" the UEFI USB. 

    Put the USB stick into the USB port, boot the PC hit F10 repeatedly (F10 is sometimes the boot menu...it might be F11 too) and a boot menu should pop up. Choose "USB" the legacy one...not UEFI USB.

  • 0 in reply to alan weir

    Thanks!  No I can't see anywhere in the BIOS to allow Legacy boot.  It only shows my USB as UEFI, although it has been imaged with the MBR option.

    It may be that this BIOS does not allow Legacy boot, in which case I may not be able to install.

    I will have an external USB CDROM today to test.

  • 0 in reply to ken Mills

    Running XG in a KVM on Linux or in Proxmox might be the only way to get around the UEFI boot limitation if that doesn't work, but it's hard to belive that the device does not at least support UEFI+Legacy

  • 0 in reply to rfcat_vk

    So...  If it turns out that my new PC cannot boot from Legacy, I'm hosed?  I can't install Sophos any way with UEFI?

  • 0 in reply to alan weir

    Yeah I know!  But there is literally nowhere in the BIOS that mentions Legacy support and it simply does not see any non UEFI devices for boot.

  • 0

    OK so..   It seems that Intel has removed Legacy BIOS support from all chipsets starting Dec 2020.  This is a latest model Celeron J6412, so therefore incompatible with Sophos.

    Quite odd that in 2022, when hardware vendors are phasing out, or indeed have removed Legacy support, that Sophos doe snot support UEFI.

    Is there a thread of feature request somewhere that UEFI users can request or follow any progress on when this will be implemented?

    Over to pfsense I guess.  Sad as I love Sophos and use their hardware appliances on all my customers.  Just can't justify the cost for my home network.

    Ken

  • 0 in reply to ken Mills

    Sophos removed the Ideas section a while ago. Home users are just plebians, but if you want to express your ideas, you have to become a customer and reach out to your partner. 

    The other alternative is to install Sophos in a VM, which requires following tutorials available on this site. 

    Installing Sophos Firewall on KVM: docs.sophos.com/.../index.html

    If you want to use pfSense, you might actually like OPNsense better. You might also want to look into Untangle NG Firewall Home which is not free but the most Sophos-like of them all.

  • 0 in reply to ken Mills

    Check out the server motherboards, they still support legacy boot, or at least my last purchase does. Asus,  Xeon based with intel nics.

    ian

    XG115W - v19.5.1 mr-1 - Home

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