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AntoineB
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February 25, 2023
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Fortigate 200F not booting

  • February 25, 2023
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Hello,

 

i have a problem wtih a fortigate 200F

 

Log of the console :

 

FortiGate-200F (11:59-01.19.2021)
Ver:05000008
Serial number:FG200FT921901705
RAM activation
CPU(00:00050665 bfebfbff): MP initialization
CPU(01:00050665 bfebfbff): MP initialization
CPU(02:00050665 bfebfbff): MP initialization
CPU(03:00050665 bfebfbff): MP initialization
CPU(04:00050665 bfebfbff): MP initialization
CPU(05:00050665 bfebfbff): MP initialization
CPU(06:00050665 bfebfbff): MP initialization
CPU(07:00050665 bfebfbff): MP initialization
Total RAM: 8192MB
Enabling cache...Done.
Scanning PCI bus...Done.
Allocating PCI resources...Done.
Enabling PCI resources...Done.
Zeroing IRQ settings...Done.
Verifying PIRQ tables...Done.
Boot up, boot device capacity: 28626MB.
Press any key to display configuration menu...
.............................

Reading boot image 3079118 bytes.
Initializing firewall...
System is starting...
Starting system maintenance...
Scanning /dev/sda1... (100%)
Scanning /dev/sda3... (100%)
batch descriptor error, exit
batch descriptor error, exit

 

 

Nothing more after it's stop booting

 

Thanks for your help in advance

Antoine

Best answer by AntoineB

Thanks a lot for your answer.

I did a recovery of the primary partition with the secondary partition and it worked.

2 replies

jhussain_FTNT
Staff
Staff
February 27, 2023

Hi,

 

It looks like the Firmware is corrupted.Kindly format and load the firmware as per the below document.

 

https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-Formatting-and-loading-FortiGate-firmware-image/ta-p/191946

 

Regards

Jamal

AntoineB
AntoineBAuthorAnswer
New Member
February 28, 2023

Thanks a lot for your answer.

I did a recovery of the primary partition with the secondary partition and it worked.

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