VyOS will not load
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So, at the recommendation of @scottalanmiller, I have installed VyOS on a computer that I have purposed for a firewall for home. I have not made any configurations at all. Literally, downloaded the image, burned it to a disk, and installed it per the VyOS wiki for installation. I typed in "install image", followed the prompts, ejected the disk, and rebooted. I haven't even setup network connections yet (maybe that's the problem?).
Once the computer is done rebooting, I get a blinking console prompt. I cannot do anything at the console and I can't do anything through putty/serial.
I feel like such a noob for asking this, but what am I doing wrong?
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Does anything happen if you press enter? Sounds like it might not be booting properly.
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Not a difficult person, but why did @scottalanmiller recommend that? The typical recommendation here would be an ERX due to the low power consumption. EdgeOS is a fork of VyOS too.
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@wirestyle22 said in VyOS will not load:
Not a difficult person, but why did @scottalanmiller recommend that? The typical recommendation here would be an ERX due to the low power consumption. EdgeOS is a fork of VyOS too.
@wirestyle22 Because @NerdyDad wanted to use his own hardware.
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@Romo I see
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@wirestyle22 said in VyOS will not load:
Not a difficult person, but why did @scottalanmiller recommend that? The typical recommendation here would be an ERX due to the low power consumption. EdgeOS is a fork of VyOS too.
This is not correct.
EdgeOS and VyOS are both forks of Vyatta.
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@JaredBusch I thought VyOS was Vyatta. Oops.
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@wirestyle22 said in VyOS will not load:
Not a difficult person, but why did @scottalanmiller recommend that? The typical recommendation here would be an ERX due to the low power consumption. EdgeOS is a fork of VyOS too.
EdgeOS is a sibling fork of Vyatta. So EdgeOS and VyOS come from Vyatta, not EdgeOS from VyOS. I had that wrong at first, too. They are definitely super similar. VyOS is for general CPU devices, like in this situation. EdgeOS is for Ubiquiti hardware.
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@wirestyle22 said in VyOS will not load:
@JaredBusch I thought VyOS was Vyatta. Oops.
Vyatta is the closed source router OS in Brocades now.
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@travisdh1 said in VyOS will not load:
Does anything happen if you press enter? Sounds like it might not be booting properly.
Nothing happens. Think maybe GRUB died?
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@NerdyDad said in VyOS will not load:
@travisdh1 said in VyOS will not load:
Does anything happen if you press enter? Sounds like it might not be booting properly.
Nothing happens. Think maybe GRUB died?
Yep. Or it never got loaded properly in the first place.
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Yeah, could be a hardware issue, a driver issue, a bad ISO... all kinds of things. Start by trying an install from the beginning again.
