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Firstboot Failed on Software Install

Emile Belcourt

So I have a Zotac Zbox CI321 Nano that I had my UTM v9 installed on successfully and was using as my home gateway firewall and decided to plop Sophos XG on it for kicks as well as play about on it.

So I had a minor bit of trouble initially on trying to install, the iso is a "hybrid iso" apparently noted by Rufus v2.5 so can be written as an iso or a Direct Disk Image. The latter worked whereas the former would fail on install attempt stating it can't find certain bits of bobs.

After the install (which took a surprisingly long time) and being presented with Greensleeves from the mobo's speaker (lol, ok), the install was complete and pressed 'y' for reboot.

Reboot comes along, keyboard goes dead while it's trying to load the firstboot configuration and default config.

It says:

Starting 15_01_0376.

Loading firstboot configuration

Installing default config

firstboot failed: swapon /dev/swap

ERROR: firstboot Failed

Password:


My knowledge of linux isnt extensive and XG is still uses a Linux kernel but from what I can gather here is that the firstboot configuration is unable to activate the Swap directory. The system is so locked down however I have, as of yet, failed to access a CLI before webadmin has been activated.


Now I can't enter a password because as soon as it prints "Starting" onto the screen, all the USB ports go dead. Leading up to I noticed that tapping Num Lock, the responses get slower and slower and are being buffered. This is indicative of something completely hammering the processor within an inch of it's life.

I can't enter a password because the keyboard is completely unresponsive and I can't access the webadmin as it looks like it hasn't even got as far as that in it's post install setup.

I'm going to try other install methods like an SD Card, USB DVD and different USB installer writers but has anyone got any ideas?

I'm also going to drag up the alpha/beta versions of the installers I have lying about to test those.

Cheers,

Emile



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    Same /dev/swap error on my APU1d4 (4GB RAM, 30GB SSD), installed from USB using serial console. After first reboot it complains about missing agreements, but there is no console entry nor the web gui is up to do this.

    Please allow changing ipaddress from 172.16.16.16 to the real one before trying to connect to the internet for the agreement.
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    Same /dev/swap error on my APU1d4 (4GB RAM, 30GB SSD), installed from USB using serial console. After first reboot it complains about missing agreements, but there is no console entry nor the web gui is up to do this.

    Please allow changing ipaddress from 172.16.16.16 to the real one before trying to connect to the internet for the agreement.
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  • 0 in reply to ThomasDreßler

    I don't think it's trying to connect to the internet at all for any agreements as I installed an XG in an isolated VM network with no net access to the XG box and it didn't error. I believe this might be an incompatibility with hardware/BIOS software.

    What are you hoping to use that board for in a network environment? I'm a little concerned and interested by the AMD T40E (and the G-series as a whole), looks a little underpowered for anything other than a low bandwidth home use/single user office space for networking and security. Though I'd love to be proved wrong and that the SFOS is so lean and smart with processor usage that it could run happily under larger loads with that hardware. But it looks very geared to a graphical environment.

    Another thing to note is that Realtek NICs are known for causing issues with speeds as they offload some processing to the CPU and cause an overhead.

    Actually, , is your system running Realtek NICs as well?

  • 0 in reply to Emile Belcourt
    The APU1D T40E CPU is a "1 GHz dual Bobcat core with 64 bit support, 32K data + 32K instruction + 512K L2 cache per core". Yes, it isnt for a bigger company, but pretty sure it fast enough for a 150M uplink we find in SOHO or <25User companies. But looks like it isnt the right hardware for Sophos XG. A try with another hardware (AMD E350 CPU) failed too as it doesnt find the USB attached keyboard.
    If i looking through the forum entries i am wondering how much complains about installation and basic functions are. Maybe i have do wait for an update.