Hey I’m trying to install routerOS on my minisforum ms-01 minipc I’ve tried it 4 different ways none work. The .iso file when i boot into it, it tries to install but fails giving me an error saying no cd/rom detected. When I grab the image file from the downloads page I boot into that and attempt to install and it tells me no installation files detected, then I tried netinstall via ethernet I set the minisforum to pickup pxe ethernet boot the minisforum detects my laptop that I had it connected to but the minisforum does not show up in the netinstall gui then i tried to install with netinstall via usb I tried to install it onto a usb and it tells me find resource: the specified image file can’t be found in the image file 1814 (I am using the .npk file for netinstall).
Im scratching my head here I just want this thing installed and failed and every attempt??? please someone help
It might be better if you install Proxmox on the device and install the CHR version of RouterOS inside Proxmox. Even if you were able to install RouterOS x86 on bare-metal, I don’t think RouterOS supports the i226-LM network adapters.
well obviously I do as it is a crucial part of the project I’m working on hence why Im getting rid of my mikrotik hardware and going for a bigger cpu I was pushing the cpu on the ccr2116 past 80%
also which image should I download if I’m going to install it on the vm?
I dont get why u can’t understand the necessity… But I already have a working network I’m transfering all my rules from my router(S) to this one router and as it is right now I’m limited on growing my network bc I’m bottlenecked at my cpu router so yea of course what your saying makes sense, but my question isn’t about that its about whether or not running in a vm will limit my cpu power or am I better off scratching mikrotik and transferring all my rules over manually with pfsense or opnsense… get it???
Obviously using something like proxmox has some impact.
But you can not compare it to a router running ROS natively with a totally different cpu.
Test and see what you get.
The fact some others say they use the same setup as you with good results might also indicate something.
Moving to other operating systems is not really in scope for this forum. But nobody is going to stop you…
Yes it will be a dedicated machine for routing. I have the 60day trial version right now and I had to shut my servers down bc with what I’m doing my internet became so slow it was unusable, it wasn’t like that on my CCR2116 so I’m thinking I need to find a way to install router OS on bare metal. Grok told me that routerOS was compatible with most intel nic cards including the one that is in my minisforum ms-01 unless grok is wrong?
yea I think in the minisforum bios that isn’t an option I was trying to do that but didn’t see it possible unless I’m missing something, and yea I had a bootable USB made with rufus I tried the .img and the .iso the iso gave me an error bc it was expecting a cd/rom and the .img gave me an error saying there was no media. But I could install other OS’s via usb no problem hence proxmox install went fine that was from USB
You were maxing out a CCR2116 with only 1-2Gbps? That sounds to me like you’re doing super heavy CPU-related tasks on the 2116, or your configuration is not leveraging the hardware correctly.
I have 5 2116’s pushing 5-6Gbps each for just over 1000 people all day long, with them running at 38% max without L3HW offload enabled. With L3HW turned on, the busiest one is at 15%.
Yes I’m running nodes transferring massive amounts of data, 63k nodes my 2116 cpu was at 40% my servers when fully maxed out with ram are capable of doing close to 500k nodes
