@stephenw10 It was apparently a problem with the motherboard and or cpu. Switched to a different system( AMD a10 apu vs. original FX6300 ) and was able to compete boot DVD. Now thinking of using it as a 10Gb router/switch instead of firewall if possible.

@dominikhoffmann Thanks, I had to change to UEFI (standard DUAL) in the bios of my Microserver.

@hoserman Are you looking at the FreeBSD version? 2.4.5 was FreeBSD 11.3 I think. Overall there is an upgrade guide which has some version specific notes.

@gertjan Thank you so much that did the trick

You can always reinstall clean if you think you may have some file system issue. Open a ticket with us to get the recovery image: https://go.netgate.com/ Steve

@needhelp404 said in 2.4.4 to 2.5.2 Issues: pfSense will hang while booting up Where exactly does it appear to hang? There are a number of points that the boot can actually hang or appear to hang that indicate different issues. If restoring the config appears to break it it's probably a bad console setting that makes it appear to hang. Steve

I always recommend using Etcher to write the image to USB. It can write the compressed image directly so that eliminates any decompression issues. It runs in pretty much any OS. Once you have the image on a USB drive though just boot that on the target device and follow the instructions on the console. https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/install/install-pfsense.html Steve

@lralvarez https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/install/upgrade-guide.html But most likely you can just click upgrade.. But never hurts to make sure you have install media, get that from netgate - they will email you link to 21.05.1. Make sure you know and can console into the device. And have a backup of your config.

@chidinmairene space key to select your 4 disks to run Raid10 else choose a different raid if you don't have 4 disks

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@johnpoz said in Upgrade OpenSSH 8.7: the version of ssh that comes with pfsense will be the one that is included with freebsd. When freebsd updates their version, then pfsense will update. Yeah its a bit dated.. Complain to freebsd about that ;) thanks much ;)

@steveits Thanks. I already tried all of those options. I have requested the link as you mentioned. Rich

@fireblade OK After a reinstall of pkg the signiture issue with pkg-static appears to be working pkg install -fy pkg

The easy solution: Create a pfSense VM with virtualbox Load packages and settings from your bare metal device Verify the config works as bare metal. Shut the VM down Restore: Use vboxmanage to convert vdi to vhd Use rufus to load the vhd on the ram device (taken out of the bare device mounted via usb) Place storage back, done. (and tested) I'm gonna test the reverse (take bare metal in to a VM) but have no doubts this will work. nb. cloning the storage device as backup also works.

Try to reimage the appliance with 21.05.1 ask support@netgate.com

Hmm, nothing unexpected logged there. You don't have any system logs from the time? Steve

@jimp yes sir, from the shell prompt.

I can find the sbin directory and the fsck command by using 'ls', but I can't seem to execute the command. I also can't use 'cd'. I tried /sbin/fsck but it didn't work.