Not sure what to say here. When I found that the 25.07 RC has dropped and was a week old I decided to go ahead and take the plunge. My 4200 is essentially new (two months old) and was running the factory image of 24.11 with config restored from the previous sg-5100. I did what I knew (and reviewed in the documentation) to be the proper steps. Running precheck, saving a fresh config, removing installed packages, performing a pre-upgrade reboot. All seemed well -- then I selected the RC and hit upgrade. Everything there also seemed to go well. At conclusion I didn't see any errors, etc.. It rebooted -- and -- nothing. Grabbed my laptop, plugged into the console and it appeared stuck on PXE boot. I hit esc twice to drop to console and tried booting. It would boot a kernel, but then fall into recovery claiming to be missing modules of some kind. It also didn't seem to know anything about an alternate boot image of the previous install. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to really poke at this, so I grabbed an installer from support and reinstalled back to 24.11 with config. All is well save 2 hours of annoyance. This is a home router, but I WFH mainly and between that and my family I have to be careful on downtimes. I can schedule some time and try this again and capture logging. Mainly I just wanted to sound a warning since this is such a new box with a factory install of 24.11. Let me know how you would like me to proceed. Thanks, -JD
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