Can the firewall be bootstrapped with software image installation or upgrade ?

Does bootstrapping allow software image installation or upgrade ?

The feature of bootstrapping a firewall was introduced in PANOS 7.1.

Bootstrapping with software image installation is supported ONLY on the VM firewall models.

The physical firewalls DO NOT support software image installation during the bootstrapping process.

The following boot up logs can be seen for a physical firewall :

Serial Console Output for boot up process after successful bootstrap :

Starting PAN Software: port_link: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.

Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint

2017-01-22 16:17:03.709 -0800 INFO: Media detected, Starting media sanity check

2017-01-22 16:17:04.782 -0800 INFO: Skip Software image installation, not supported on physical devices.

2017-01-22 16:17:04.785 -0800 INFO: USB media sanity check passed

2017-01-22 16:17:04.800 -0800 INFO: System upgrade state: firstboot, starting upgrade mode

2017-01-22 16:17:04.803 -0800 INFO: Bootstrap media detection completed.

More Info

For more information on bootstrapping process, please see the below link :

Bootstrapping Firewalls for Rapid Deployment