@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

@w0w Thank you!

Will add just in case this is helpful for anyone: Installed with full installer CE 2.7.2 Edit gateway using a helper VM in the same subnet, subsequent config via helper machine. Set the routing option in gateway "Use non local Gateway" (below) Upgrade to CE 2.8.2 Set Outbound rules manually, automatic outbound rules seems not to work when gateway is out of scope. All works perfectly. Thanks for your help. [image: 1758009222438-7c4cb76a-a092-48ca-b95b-60f9174cd8d2-image.png]

@Gertjan said in Error when xxtrat PFSENSE ISO file: The error "0x80070522 " implies a lot. I put all my bets on "Microsoft Windows" ^^ You are probably right, not seen any for a long time ... not using the big W.

One other thing I also did was cp libmd.so.6 to libmd.so.7 to see if I could get pkg to work, and it did work. I don’t think it made a difference in the end, but wanted to mention it. Also after the upgrade finished, it did overwrite that copy with the actual proper file.

@sandie Cleaning up boot environments also resolved this issue on a Netgate 4100. It would be great if they caught the issue and provided better error message, or remove old boot environments that are over a year old. Went from 1.9GB of free disk space to 4GB of usable space. for others seeing this issue. this output was during the clean up process, there were several more entries at the start, but weren't in my buffer anymore. [25.07.1-RELEASE][root@pfSense.home.arpa]/root: df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on pfSense/ROOT/default 3.2G 1.3G 1.9G 40% / devfs 1.0K 0B 1.0K 0% /dev pfSense/var 1.9G 3.5M 1.9G 0% /var pfSense/tmp 1.9G 888K 1.9G 0% /tmp pfSense/home 1.9G 96K 1.9G 0% /home pfSense/var/db 5.9G 4.0G 1.9G 68% /var/db pfSense/var/log 1.9G 4.1M 1.9G 0% /var/log pfSense/var/cache 1.9G 96K 1.9G 0% /var/cache pfSense/var/tmp 1.9G 112K 1.9G 0% /var/tmp pfSense/ROOT/default/cf 1.9G 1.7M 1.9G 0% /cf pfSense/ROOT/default/var_cache_pkg 2.3G 402M 1.9G 17% /var/cache/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default/var_db_pkg 1.9G 7.9M 1.9G 0% /var/db/pkg tmpfs 4.0M 140K 3.9M 3% /var/run devfs 1.0K 0B 1.0K 0% /var/dhcpd [25.07.1-RELEASE][root@pfSense.home.arpa]/root: bectl list BE Active Mountpoint Space Created auto-default-20240314022141 - - 627M 2024-03-14 02:21 default NR / 5.01G 2025-09-13 14:18 default_20240413162830 - - 29.8M 2024-04-13 16:28 default_20240413162830_20240413162833 - - 532M 2023-05-22 16:08 default_20250913141802 - - 822M 2025-01-21 10:06 [25.07.1-RELEASE][root@pfSense.home.arpa]/root: bectl destroy default_20240413162830_20240413162833 [25.07.1-RELEASE][root@pfSense.home.arpa]/root: bectl list BE Active Mountpoint Space Created default NR / 4.07G 2025-09-13 14:18 default_20240413162830 - - 1.06G 2024-04-13 16:28 default_20250913141802 - - 822M 2025-01-21 10:06 [25.07.1-RELEASE][root@pfSense.home.arpa]/root: df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on pfSense/ROOT/default 5.4G 1.3G 4.1G 24% / devfs 1.0K 0B 1.0K 0% /dev pfSense/var 4.1G 3.5M 4.1G 0% /var pfSense/tmp 4.1G 240K 4.1G 0% /tmp pfSense/home 4.1G 96K 4.1G 0% /home pfSense/var/db 8.1G 4.0G 4.1G 50% /var/db pfSense/var/log 4.1G 4.1M 4.1G 0% /var/log pfSense/var/cache 4.1G 96K 4.1G 0% /var/cache pfSense/var/tmp 4.1G 112K 4.1G 0% /var/tmp pfSense/ROOT/default/cf 4.1G 1.7M 4.1G 0% /cf pfSense/ROOT/default/var_cache_pkg 4.5G 402M 4.1G 9% /var/cache/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default/var_db_pkg 4.1G 7.9M 4.1G 0% /var/db/pkg tmpfs 4.0M 140K 3.9M 3% /var/run devfs 1.0K 0B 1.0K 0% /var/dhcpd/dev

Check for rogue repo files here: [2.8.1-RELEASE][admin@cedev-2.stevew.lan]/root: ls -ls /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/ total 1 1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 25 Aug 28 17:10 FreeBSD.conf 1 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 55 Sep 5 12:02 pfSense.conf -> /usr/local/etc/pfSense/pkg/repos/pfSense-repo-0002.conf It's been a long while since I tried pf2ad but I'm pretty sure it has an install/uninstall script that should do it. Unless it's completely broken!

Everything should be back to normal now for IPv6 connectivity, there was an upstream issue that's been resolved.

You can always just reinstall 2.7.2 which will give you the new larger sized EFI partition and then upgrade again from there.

The driver firmware loading issue is not fixed in 2.8.1. It's still broken upstream AFAIK. You will still need to apply one of the workarounds.

@stephenw10 Yeah I am not sure what went wrong originally but glad it is working now!

Well that's not a bug if the gateways used were marked as down. That's the expected behaviour in 2.8.X. If the gateway being marked down is a change since 2.7.2 that could be a separate problem.

Now you can upgrade to 25.07.1.

It's no different in 25.07.1. The 1100 can take a while to complete the check I agree. It's not really a bug though, it really is waiting for another instance to finish. Previous versions just hid that.

@Flowi001 Thank You .

@SteveITS Thanks.

918MB is potentially not enough available space. You should remove some older BEs and retry. I would normally expect to see the 'not enough space' alert if it hits that though.

@SteveITS Tool tips say the following: green: Current Boot Environment yellow: Boot Verification Failed black: Upgrading Boot Environment

Hmm. Well if you can replicate the WAN failure after upgrade it would be good to grab a status_output file to check. I've not seen that on an 1100 here.

@Gertjan @stephenw10 Thank you for the explanations. I will start a new thread.