Re: pfsense and the Trigkey Green G1 mini-computer

From: Tom Browder <tom.browder_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 19:10:50 UTC 
On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 08:22 Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> wrote:
> On 12/05/2022 13:30, Tom Browder wrote:
> > I am not a FreeBSD user (yet), but I'm trying to install a pfsense
> > image onto the SSD of a Trigkey Green G1 mini-computer and haven't
> > been able to do so yet due to its apparently locked-down Windows OS.
...
> I don't know the specific device, but things that start out as Windows
> boxes usually tend to have secure boot enabled these days. It's a while
> since I last fought Windows but I think you may have to boot into
> Windows and then tell it you want to do a maintenance boot and then
> catch it during boot to get into the BIOS to turn off secure booting.
> It's a rigmarole, and if you get the timing wrong you have to start again.
...
> Final note: you might want to look at OPNsense as an alternative to
> pfSense. I'm in the process of switching as pfSense appears to be more
> commercially oriented these days.

Can you or anyone else recommend a suitable micro-computer that I can
install FreeBSD on to run OPNsense?

Thanks,

-Tom