How to gain access to the installed partition of XG Firewall to modify boot so only text is seen via console

Ghost Coder said:

How can I gain access to the boot folder/partition so I can modify it to send all text to the serial port?

SSH to the FW, go to the advanced shell (Option 5, then Option 3.)

The boot folder is at /boot

The grub cfg file is at /boot/grub/grub.cfg

You can use vim to edit the file.

Hi,

also check your console connection speed is set to 38000 from memory otherwise you will get garbled text.

Ian

Hi All,

I tried the advanced shell and I can't find the boot folder or the grub.cfg anywhere on the disk.

SF01V_SO01_SFOS 17.5.9 MR-9# ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 17 root 0 1024 Jan 31 21:33 _conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 0 1024 Jan 31 21:33 bin
drwxrwxrwt 67 root 0 4096 Feb 3 18:28 cfs
drwxr-xr-x 9 root 0 1024 Feb 1 19:08 conf
drwxr-xr-x 19 root 0 1024 Feb 1 21:07 content
drwxrwxrwt 10 root 0 1000 Feb 3 18:35 dev
drwxr-xr-x 21 root 0 1024 Feb 3 18:28 etc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 0 3 Oct 25 10:20 fwprep
drwxr-xr-x 19 root 0 8141 Nov 1 16:37 lib
drwxr-xr-x 3 root 0 27 Nov 1 16:36 lib32
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 0 3 Nov 1 16:37 lib64 -> lib
drwxr-xr-x 3 root 0 28 Nov 1 16:37 libexec
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 0 11 Nov 1 16:37 linuxrc -> bin/busybox
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 0 9 Nov 1 16:37 log -> var/tslog
drwx------ 2 root 0 12288 Jan 31 21:33 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 0 3 Nov 1 16:42 overlay
dr-xr-xr-x 372 root 0 0 Feb 3 18:28 proc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 0 3 Nov 1 16:37 sbin -> bin
drwxr-xr-x 34 root 0 1024 Jan 31 21:33 scripts
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 0 3 Nov 1 16:37 sdisk -> var
drwxr-xr-x 5 root 0 61 Nov 1 16:37 share
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 0 8 Nov 1 16:37 sig -> /content
drwxr-xr-x 18 root 0 1024 Jan 31 21:33 static
dr-xr-xr-x 13 root 0 0 Feb 3 18:28 sys
drwxrwxrwt 15 root 0 1220 Feb 3 19:04 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 7 root 0 1024 Jan 31 21:33 usr
drwxr-xr-x 31 root 0 4096 Feb 1 21:09 var
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 0 3 Nov 1 16:37 vdisk -> var
SF01V_SO01_SFOS 17.5.9 MR-9#

SF01V_SO01_SFOS 17.5.9 MR-9# find / grub | grep grub
/usr/share/vim/vim80/ftplugin/grub.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim80/syntax/grub.vim
find: grub: No such file or directory
SF01V_SO01_SFOS 17.5.9 MR-9# find / grub* | grep grub
/usr/share/vim/vim80/ftplugin/grub.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim80/syntax/grub.vim
find: grub*: No such file or directory

Put the speed on the serial connect on my putty session to 38400 but still no luck.

SF01V_SO01_SFOS 17.5.9 MR-9# df -a
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 313164 2642 289835 1% /
none 0 0 0 0% /proc
none 0 0 0 0% /sys
df: /newroot: No such file or directory
df: /newroot/dev: No such file or directory
df: /newrootrw: No such file or directory
none 313164 2642 289835 1% /
none 1020476 20 1020456 0% /dev
none 0 0 0 0% /proc
none 1020476 12748 1007728 1% /tmp
none 0 0 0 0% /dev/pts
none 1020476 14984 1005492 1% /dev/shm
/sys 0 0 0 0% /sys
/dev/conf 394624 48675 345949 12% /conf
/dev/content 22883958 84501 22799457 0% /content
/dev/var 202018672 291040 201727632 0% /var
none 0 0 0 0% /cfs
CFS 0 0 0 0% /cfs
SF01V_SO01_SFOS 17.5.9 MR-9#

in the syslog.log file

Original command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=17_5_9_577 zd=/dev/sda ro ro quiet console=tty0 console=ttyS0,38400n8 ZD=80 SM=0

but when I do fdisk -l

SF01V_SO01_SFOS 17.5.9 MR-9# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

Hi Ghost Coder 

What you are trying to do is not supported.  Also when you update firmware, this will be overwritten.

As previous post has stated, it sounds like your baud rate is not set correctly.  It could be in BIOS where its set too low for the XG code.  The XG code is set to 38400.  If the hardware does not have that set as that speed, then you will have issues.

Thanks!