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    Upgrade to 2.7.0 - APU 2 can't see boot loader

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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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      Do you have the upgrade log?

      Without that it's hard to say what might have happened.

      It's probably fastest to in install 2.7 clean and restore your config.

      Steve

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        LSE4 @stephenw10
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        @stephenw10

        Thanks Stephen. I just did a fresh install and was able to get in. Thanka for the suggestion.

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          SuperTypeGuy
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          Not sure if this is related. Yesterday I did a quick Test upgrade on one of our lab devices and after the upgrade it would not boot successfully. Only had a few minutes to look at it so I power cycled and tried booting using the previous kernel where it booted up successfully.

          When back in the lab I will check if there is a No /boot/loader message.
          Cheers,
          Mark

          [1/2] Upgrading pfSense-base from 2.7.0.b.20230621.1553 to 2.7.0...
          [1/2] Extracting pfSense-base-2.7.0: .. done

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            SuperTypeGuy
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            Ok, came into the lab today to check things out and it is something different.
            Discovered it was stopping at EFI framebuffer information .. so on a hunch changed BIOS from legacy boot to UEFI boot and it came right up. Interesting as I didn't think an upgrade would do that.
            Cheers, Mark

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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              Mmm, I wouldn't have expected it to. Perhaps it was running a much older boot loader? Was it installed as 2.6 originally?

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                LSE4 @SuperTypeGuy
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                @SuperTypeGuy

                What command did you use to boot the old kernel from boot: ?

                I was running pfSense 2.6.0 at the time.

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                  SuperTypeGuy @stephenw10
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                  @stephenw10 ... hmm, trying to remember. pretty sure the initial install was 2.7 devel (zfs) to get the 2.5 Gb nics working. Did an upgrade to b.20230621.1553 without issue.

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                    SuperTypeGuy @LSE4
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                    @LSE4 from the console it was booting to a menu with a kernel option #6 I believe ... then just Enter.

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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @SuperTypeGuy
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                      @SuperTypeGuy said in Upgrade to 2.7.0 - APU 2 can't see boot loader:

                      pretty sure the initial install was 2.7 devel (zfs) to get the 2.5 Gb nics working.

                      Not an APU2 then?

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                        SuperTypeGuy @stephenw10
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                        @stephenw10 yes correct, not an apu2. :-) We do have experience with pcengines tho. Since the alix!

                        BIOS Vendor: American Megatrends International, LLC.
                        CPU Type Intel(R) Pentium(R) Silver N6005 @ 2.00GHz
                        Current: 1148 MHz, Max: 1996 MHz
                        4 CPUs: 1 package(s) x 4 core(s)
                        AES-NI CPU Crypto: Yes (active)
                        Memory 16GB
                        4 x Intel(R) Ethernet Controller I226-V

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