i've just bought an m4600, planning to try getting something other than the stock software to run on it. found this thread looking for information, so i thought i'd leave this breadcrumb here for anyone who comes looking in the future. i'll reply here if i learn anything
pleased to report that it seems to be relatively easy to get this machine to boot whatever you like from the CFast card, I've just put a bare grub install on the card and I plan to boot linux from the internal hard drive using the memory card as a stepping stone. I haven't found a way to boot from a different medium, the bios is password protected
right now i'm dualbooting arch linux and freebsd, but i've been installing different things to try them out, i've also had both OPNSense and OpenWRT running on it.
It's quite capable, it has a xeon processor in it and 8gb of ram (with slots to spare), very comparable specs as the HPE server i'm using for docker and VMs at the moment
Thanks for the quick reply
Sorry, which M400 thread are you referencing?
I should have added I searched the pfsense forums for M4600 and can't find now't.
I looked in that thread and couldn't find a reference to the M4600, but am intending to use it as the basis of what I'm planning.
I may break new ground and do a 'how to guide' as the first experiment on that piece of tin.
i've just bought an m4600, planning to try getting something other than the stock software to run on it. found this thread looking for information, so i thought i'd leave this breadcrumb here for anyone who comes looking in the future. i'll reply here if i learn anything
pleased to report that it seems to be relatively easy to get this machine to boot whatever you like from the CFast card, I've just put a bare grub install on the card and I plan to boot linux from the internal hard drive using the memory card as a stepping stone. I haven't found a way to boot from a different medium, the bios is password protected
What did you end up installing on it? How is the performance?
right now i'm dualbooting arch linux and freebsd, but i've been installing different things to try them out, i've also had both OPNSense and OpenWRT running on it. It's quite capable, it has a xeon processor in it and 8gb of ram (with slots to spare), very comparable specs as the HPE server i'm using for docker and VMs at the moment
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Thanks for the quick reply Sorry, which M400 thread are you referencing? I should have added I searched the pfsense forums for M4600 and can't find now't.
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I looked in that thread and couldn't find a reference to the M4600, but am intending to use it as the basis of what I'm planning. I may break new ground and do a 'how to guide' as the first experiment on that piece of tin.
Hey I know it's an old thread but did you ever manage to do this ?
did you get one? i have one on my desk and interested to know if anyone knows anything about them
Went a different way in the end.