Yup some USB drives don't play nicely with one of the ports. It always the same though.

Hi all, Thanks for all the info provided, much appreciated. I can confirm that disabling in BIOS the WiFi card solved the issue. I was able to upgrade to 2.8.1 without an issue. Thanks!

It's still an open bug upstream: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=283285

@SteveITS @patient0 THANK YOU BOTH!!! had ZERO knowledge or idea my issue was that EZ 2 solve; SOOOOOO many wasted hours SMH Yes, it is installing ATM

Hmm, OK. Can't be that then. In that case I would connect the new client device to trigger the issue then check the system log to see what events are being triggered when you do that.

Just for reference do you have DNS set to local only or can it fall back to external?

Thanks. It turns out a number of the IPs in my DNS servers were no longer responding. Problem solved :)

Hmm, well it could also have been due to BE snapshots filling the disk. In both cases though it should have failed gracefully with a warning alert.

Try booting it in Legacy BIOS mode if you can.

@Unoptanio I made sure I had the newest BIOS from HP for my G9 and G10 servers, that made no difference. Even with 25.07.1 it's still unbootable under UEFI. If I switch to BIOS it boots just fine, so it's a UEFI issue for sure. As to the patches I have seen them, and they apply fine, but trying to jump to UEFI is still a no go, only BIOS on the HP's I have.. -Howard

@stephenw10 Yep. The upgrade completed without a problem after clearing those files. Thanks all for the assistance!

I upgraded from 24.11 to 25.0.7.1 on my netgate 2100 yesterday night without a hitch - off course i took screen shots of my various configuration and did have previous boot backup (and xml)

Hmm, what sort of tunnel? Is it somehow trying to pass the upgrade traffic across it?

@andres-asm if I read it correctly you're running pfSense in a VM on Proxmox (8 or 9?) with EFI. What 'Machine' are you using on Proxmox, 'Default (i440fx) or 'q35'? There is a thread about issues with pfSense running on Proxmox with UEFI: After upgrade 24.03 to 24.11 reboot hangs at start @ 0xffffff..... The root cause is not yet known.

Hmm, you added that cronjob yourself? Any particular reason? Do you have an url aliases with a large number of entries?

@djp123 said in How the heck do I actually install CE 2.8?: the only "purchase" choice for a memstick image is "Netgate appliance". You aren't shown the other options? image: [image: 1758291449972-eb4cf63a-adff-4d7f-989b-fc3f40445de6-image.png] Or if you're asking which to use, you can burn the ISO to a USB stick. https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/install/prepare-installer-media.html