I want to be very careful here. As much as I'm very adamant that the offline installer should not have been removed. The business concern is that there are people freeloading off of the software who have ample resources to pay for it. While there are gray areas, I think we can all agree that someone like Amazon should be paying for the software they use. I think we can all also agree that if there's someone out there selling an unofficial pfSense appliance, that company should be paying for pfSense.

The problem that the pfSense team is trying to solve with the online installer is the freeloader problem described above. I think this was the wrong way to approach this, but we have to understand where they were coming from and realize that just saying "give us back the offline installer" is not productive because it doesn't solve their problem. We need to be talking in terms that supports an offline installer AND ALSO helps solve their freeloader problem.

Additionally when we use the word "customer" (someone who pays for a product) when we really mean "user", it conflates things. If everyone who used pfSense was indeed a "customer", then I don't think we would have ever ended up with an online-only installer.

may be I go the issue we just nee dot reboot the firewall and select the old kernel and boot the firewall after boot it will reboot again and you can access the latest version of firewall which 2.8.0 I tried and it work for me.

@stephenw10 I a not using squid guard so I have to enable and check, I enabled the squid proxy server and squid guard proxy filter they both are running fine without any errors.
Thanks for the help and quick response

For future reference you should always be able to upgrade to the newest offered version in one step. We test upgrades from the previous two versions.

@stephenw10 said in Kernel Panic when Upgrading to 2.8.0 beta:

Hmm, interesting if it's really disabled in the BIOS pfSense shouldn't see it at all. Something not working right there.

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Correct. Under the list of devices in the BIOS on the NUC, WiFi is not checked.

...well, after some false starts (like loading 2.7.2 and running into different interface names on the new hardware (i,e. igc0 vs igb0, etc..) which did not allow th eloading of my VLANS etc... I ended up editing the backup config file, replacing "igb" for "igc", and loading 2.8.0... all is working great now on the new hardware.... I will wait until I can upgrade from 2.8.0 to Plus... reason to go to Plus is to contribute $ to the project, as I have been using pfSense for free for years now... am recently retired and delving into IT and learning as I go... Thanks for all the replies and suggestions !

Ok send me your NDI in chat and I'll check it.

@lansmurf said in Upgrade from 2.7.2 to 2.80 failed, unable to boot:

You are right it is an image file of the installer...

Ah, OK, thanks!

We were able to finally figure out all of the URLs that the pfSense box was sending requests too and we now have a working squid proxy.

Thank you.

@fireodo said in php error with suricata after updating to 2.8:

@bmeeks said in php error with suricata after updating to 2.8:

Part of the install/update process for the package rebuilds the enabled rules.

Maybe to much rules too?

A possibility for sure, but the rules rebuild was apparently working under the previous pfSense version if I am understanding the OP correctly.

He also has pfBlockerNG installed and it will use a lot of PHP memory for some tasks.

@NetworkNerd In the Netgate Installer you configure WAN so it provides its own Internet connection.

In the GUI you can set how many log lines to display. Or in shell look in /var/log.

@patient0 : Thanks !!

Well we should have new installer version available quite soon so you could try that on it.

You should really use: `setenv bootcmd 'setLED; run mmcboot;'

Otherwise you won't see the expected LED sequence at boot.Though it would still boot fine.

@dws I don't have a direct answer but if you spend much time on fixing it, it's probably easier to just format+reinstall and restore from backup (which can be done during the install).