You need to change the connection type from DHCP to PPPoE and enter the credentials required by your ISP.

@stephenw10 I actually had to put a video card in this system as it didn't have any native video. The video card only supplies HDMI, so I have an HDMI-VGA adapter to drive my normal monitor for testing. I do appreciate your input and your time. If all else fails I'll just go back to 271/2.

@tinfoilmatt said in Fresh install of version 2.8 fails to boot: @coffeecup25 FYI... [image: 1763342432874-21850f97-3e53-4bc1-912f-6f7cfea52688-image.png] Aren't you the clever one. So smart. FYI, I'm a terrible typist. And I never get all of my ideas out the first draft. That's that the edit button is for. Am I supposed to be embarrassed or are you supposed to look smart. Neither is true. Does your discovery somehow prove something about the issue at hand in your mind? pfSense still did not load right. And I'm not using it any longer. OPNsense has no issues like the ones I described and it appears more stable given some of the issues that mut be considered during a common, ordinary upgrade. My main router is OPNsense and so is my spare. And the disk holding the last attempt at pfSense was reformatted. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to make these final points.

That must be the console to see the bootloader menu like that. But it's showing serial as default console, is that actually the serial console? That looks like it's just not using the correct console. https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/troubleshooting/boot-issues.html#booting-with-an-alternate-console But, yes, why are you using such an old version?

@pfpv said in check_upgrade: "Updating repositories metadata" returned error code 1: misread my post This post ? is what I see/have.

@yellowRain said in offline pfsense 25.07 and 25.07.1 installer (usb stick) doe snot work reliably: offline pfsense 25.07 and 25.07.1 installer (usb stick) doe snot work reliably Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software 7 posts 3 posters 120 views 3 watching Reply YOffline yellowRain 6 days ago I tried 25.07 and 25.07.1 pfsense plus reinstall on Netgate 6100 without success. Error was "cannot connect to netgate servers". Fortunately, I had to the 23.09 offline image stick somewhere, and went with this old version. I had to apply 23.09.1, then 23.11, then 25.07.1 upgrade afterwards, and then restore 25.07.1 config. Hope you can improve the netgate server detection part, or add back an offline option. I have changed of ISP, and now I'm sure 100% there are no issues on this part. Internet connectivity was fine before the reinstallation, and I could check netgate forums, and pfsense-installer dhcp client has been detected by the ISP box during the installation. Thank you for your work. Yeah, I ran into the same issue. Super annoying that the new installer won’t work offline anymore. Glad you found a workaround though!

@d1novak said in Current pkg repository has a new PHP major version. pfSense should be upgraded before installing any new package.: @dennypage Thank you! Worked like a charm. Welcome

@patient0 I'll try. Thanks ;)

Ah, yeah that's an ugly error in 24.11 but should not prevent actually upgrading.

Clearing my browser cache did the trick. I'm OK now. Thanks to everyone for their feedback.

@mvikman Upvoted for the DL link.

@SteveITS thanks so much by the help. When I executed "certctl rehash" in Console, I can see the Update in the Branch 2.7.1 and 2.7.2. I updated from pfSense v2.7.0 to v2.7.2 and later form pfSense v2.7.2 to v2.8.1 without nay problem. Thanks so much again.

@stephenw10 Problem solved. I had to select the disk with the spacebar. In all menus before, i used enter to continue.

said in netgate-installer.iso.gz has no ISO file - only folder: @stephenw10 said in netgate-installer.iso.gz has no ISO file - only folder: Hmm, weird. How is the DVD drive attached on that? I used a 4K UHD capable BD drive connected via USB for the latest install. So in order to satisfy my curiosity, I connected the UHD BD drive to another mini and gave it a try. This time I got to the install menu. The previous tries were with a standard BD drive, which had made successful installations previously. This UHD drive is practically new with little mileage on it. So I can conclude that the ISO can work, which is good news if it gets to the point that using old version ISOs such as the 2.7.2 on hand won't do a scratch install and update to the current version. Until then I think I'll stick with that ISO.

I noticed that the kea2unbound version shipped with pfsense 2.8.1 equals this commit in the pfsense git repository Bring in Kea enhancements from Plus (marcos-ng comitted on Mar 26) After updating the version of /usr/local/bin/kea2unbound with this version: kea2unbound: use the new unbound fast-reload feature in v1.23 (rcmcdonald91 committed on Jul 2) the error seems to be gone. Steps # downlaod kea2unbound Commit 146391a curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pfsense/pfsense/146391aa0c5c25348f8f6fa36120332ccbb74ce0/src/usr/local/bin/kea2unbound -o ~/kea2unbound # set permissions chmod +x ~/kea2unbound # backup previous version cp /usr/local/bin/kea2unbound ~/kea2unbound.bak_RELEASE_2.8.1 # overwrite version mv ~/kea2unbound /usr/local/bin/kea2unbound