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XG Firewall SW-SFOS_15.01.0-376 install failure

marcusbennett

Dear All,

 

Please be gentle with me.  My first post and first introduction to Sophos and the XG Firewall

 

I'm trying to install XG  SW-SFOS_15.01.0-376.iso  onto a Mini ITX Intel 64 bit system that was sold to me a while back,  the seller, a good friend, and very capable guy had used it for Sophos UTM without issue.

 

I took the machine, inserted a 64GB SSD and today tried the installation of  the XG product

 

All seems to be good.  I read on screen messages like:

Installing Loader for appliance SF01V_S001  [OK]

Installing firmware for appliance SF01V-S001 [OK]

Firmware Installed

Remove Installer disk

press y to reboot

 

SO I took out the CDROM and rebooted.

I get a PC BIOS error message   "No bootable partition"

 

I take out the disk into another system and sure enough

 

NO PARTITIONS ON THE SSD, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!

No wonder it did not start.

 

So the obvious dumbo question I am asking, is what the hell am I doing wrong?

Any other clear options to try?

 

Anybody?

 

Regards Marcus Bennett.

 



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  • 0
    Okay, I moved the 'blank' disk as seen by (say) Windows Disk Management and put it into a spare PC.

    Tried to boot. To my amazement, a SFOS boot occured.
    So although Windows did not see a partition, the install had worked but yet the Mini ITX PC on which the installation had taken place could not boot from the 'installed' hard disk.

    So I have accepted the license agreement, by eventually finding out which network adapter on the donor PC the 172.16.16.16 address was coming out of and then logging on

    Now I have a UNIX well linux command prompt. To investigate further

    fdisk -l /dev/sda SHOWS NOTHING

    so even Linux itself seems a little confused about where the partitions are on this installation

    I did a cat /proc/partitions and oh yes sra sda and sda1 thru sda7 are there.

    A bit of a surprise.

    Can anybody whose knows the Sophos product suite and perhaps XG in particular explain what is going on.
    i.e. why are the partitions hidden even to parts of the operating system itself. It is some sort of bizzare secutity measure?

    Confused.
    • 0

      I had the "no bootable device" error, booted a linux live CD and could not see any partitions.
      I was using Easy2Boot so decided to try "boot first HDD" - and it worked (as in booted Sophos )

      i've since given up because it didn't recognise my usb-ethernet adapter and would not activate, so i didn't find a permanent fix.

      • 0 in reply to josephbarrows
        to complete setup you need two real cards physically plugged into the mb. one for the initial login and the other to activate the xg. Then you can configure it to use one interface. I don't think XG supports usb devices.

        Ian,

        home UTM 9.x running in ESXi 6 e3-1275v2

        AP55c and AP10 (courtesy Astaro)

        Three other UTMs, SUM and SFM in hibernation

        XG 15.x MR3 in hibernation

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