Fortigate 200D

Hardware Questions and Recommendations
1

hi
i was try to put openwrt on fortigate 200D
i did get out ssd from the box , i did write image openwrt-23.05.2-x86-64-generic-ext4-rootfs.img on the ssd
mount everithing back , but not work
fortigate 200d has intel proc x64 2.5ghz
4 gb ddr and 64gb ssd

i did make this on other small pc and did work without problem
here i think the bios of the fortigate not boot other software

now my fortigate 200d it s unuseful because firmware it s gone from ssd

any help if it s possible

thank s a lot

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i was try to do this because fortigate has no licence anymore
firmware was old , to put last one i need to have licence from fortigate

i realise harware are compatible with openwrt , opnsense , pfsense , etc
all nic cards are intel pro 1000

3

We don't know pretty much anything about this hardware, so it's up to you to find out.

the good parts

  • it seems to offer (easy) serial console access for debugging, use it

the bad parts

  • 2+16+2 ethernet ports (very most likely) implies an onboard switch, detaching direct network interface access from the outside, this will need drivers (which may not exist).
  • "SPU NP4Lite network processor" implies very custom hardware, which would require driver support (which, again likely doesn't exist) or some way to circumvent it
  • "SPU CP8 content processor" implies very custom hardware, which would require driver support (which, again likely doesn't exist) or some way to circumvent it
  • it's expensive and exotic, not exactly great conditions to find someone (else) motivated to buy one and work on it, given the very specialized one-off hardware that's only meant to be used by their subscription based OS, neither of this makes success very likely (the same goes for Cisco, Palo Alto and similar devices)
4

The internet says that the cpu is celeron g540, what console says?

5

yes
correct

6

so
i realise i can t make it work with other distribution ( software )
will only work with fortigate original software
now my problem is i do not have original software , i can t get it from fortigate because i have to pay for support
i can fix it only if somebody will give me software for it
i hope i will find somehow
thank s a lot

7

Did you tried to run it from flash drive? Both images with efi or without?

8

That is only an image of the root partition, not the whole disk. It isn't complete for an installation and since it does not contain a kernel, it is not bootable by itself. Use the ext4-combined or ext4-combined-efi image.

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9

I'd try to get a recent vanilla Linux up and running 1st, to see if the hw supported, then move over to Openwrt.

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10

i will try to see
i prefer opnsense
but i am familiar with openwrt too