Unable to upgrade from 2.7.1 to 2.7.2 | Unmounting /boot/efi... done. | failed.

beatvjiking

@jimp this worked perfectly for me! I appreciate the help on all of this. I was willing to take the risk in this situation because if there was no workaround, it ended with me getting on a plane; if the workaround blew up the system, I'd be getting on a plane. Thank you for helping me take that calculated risk. And there's no plane involved!

slu

@jimp said in Unable to upgrade from 2.7.1 to 2.7.2 | Unmounting /boot/efi... done. | failed.:

You never saw this post.

Thank you @jimp I will try this never saw workaround. :)

Technical it's not a problem for me to reinstall, but I must travel hundreds of km between the offices...

josh.hall

@jimp I'll do my best Col. Klink impersonation. I see nothing! I know nothing!

Also, thanks for showing us that nothing. Might be less than elegant, and certainly risky... but, it means I don't need to physically move the system to a monitor to rebuild it completely. What's the point of working in software if we can't be a bit lazy now and then?

tighernain

@jimp

This worked for me, thank you for the help.

nol166

@jimp Logged in just to say thank you for posting this. It worked for me!

I appreciate your help!

crsesilva

@jimp Logged in just to say thank you for posting this. It worked for me!

I appreciate your help!

Making_sense_of_pfSense

My /boot/efi partition was 779K.

Then I ran the commands that @jimp provided and now it's 197M!

After that, pfSense-upgrade had no issue upgrading from 2.7.1 to 2.7.2!
Thank you so much!

slu

Confirm, it's working!

/dev/msdosfs/EFISYS                                197M    512B    197M     0%    /boot/efi

Thank you very much @jimp

Klaus2314

@slu same issue here, but the procedure above fixed it. thanks! I had to power cycle the device after reboot though. it did not come back after reboot. same on my SG1100.

Updating the EFI loader
install: //boot/efi/efi/boot/INS@8I5bRD: Input/output error
pkg-static: POST-INSTALL script failed

lnxfrk

@jimp said in Unable to upgrade from 2.7.1 to 2.7.2 | Unmounting /boot/efi... done. | failed.:

You never saw this post.

I'm certainly glad I saw this post. Thank you @jimp - At some point I'll plan on doing a fresh install as I'm sure that will help long term. I think the initial install for me was 2.4.5p1 so it's been a while.
Again, thanks!

romanr

never saw this post! but it's working!

t1e1

I can confirm this worked for an MBT-2200 (Minnowboard) which has not had a fresh install since at least Ver 2.4.5 (and still hasn't).

I did not have to power-cycle the unit, though after close to 20 minutes I was almost ready to either do it, or hook a monitor to it (not as easy as it sounds, or I would have done it first). I'm glad I waited and didn't crash it during the final part of the upgrade!

Thanks @jimp!

fabiensch

@jimp thanks! It worked for me too!

Before :

[2.7.1-RELEASE][root@core]/root: mount_msdosfs /dev/msdosfs/EFISYS /boot/efi
[2.7.1-RELEASE][root@core]/root: df -hi /boot/efi/efi/boot/
Filesystem             Size    Used   Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/msdosfs/EFISYS    779K    386K    393K    50%       3   509    1%   /boot/efi

After :

[2.7.1-RELEASE][root@core]/root: mkdir -p /boot/efi
[2.7.1-RELEASE][root@core]/root: mount_msdosfs /dev/msdosfs/EFISYS /boot/efi
[2.7.1-RELEASE][root@core]/root: mkdir -p /tmp/efitmp
[2.7.1-RELEASE][root@core]/root: cp -Rp /boot/efi/* /tmp/efitmp
[2.7.1-RELEASE][root@core]/root: umount /boot/efi
[2.7.1-RELEASE][root@core]/root: newfs_msdos -F 32 -c 1 -L EFISYS /dev/msdosfs/EFISYS
/dev/msdosfs/EFISYS: 403266 sectors in 403266 FAT32 clusters (512 bytes/cluster)
BytesPerSec=512 SecPerClust=1 ResSectors=32 FATs=2 Media=0xf0 SecPerTrack=63 Heads=16 HiddenSecs=0 HugeSectors=409600 FATsecs=3151 RootCluster=2 FSInfo=1 Backup=2
[2.7.1-RELEASE][root@core]/root: mount_msdosfs /dev/msdosfs/EFISYS /boot/efi
[2.7.1-RELEASE][root@core]/root: cp -Rp /tmp/efitmp/* /boot/efi/
[2.7.1-RELEASE][root@core]/root: df -hi /boot/efi/efi/boot/
Filesystem             Size    Used   Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/msdosfs/EFISYS    197M    386K    197M     0%       0     0     -   /boot/efi

Up to date in 2.7.2 now !

Have a nice sunday!

jimp

I opened a Redmine so we can look into an automated way to address this since it seems to be a lot more common than expected:

https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/15081

discy

@jimp said in Unable to upgrade from 2.7.1 to 2.7.2 | Unmounting /boot/efi... done. | failed.:

Yeah, those must be rather old installations to have an EFI partition that small. I thought we made them significantly larger several years ago.

My first use of PFSense on this device (BYOD) started in April 2020 with whatever version was stable at that time.
From that point on I have only done in-place upgrades. This is the first time I run into issues.
Not sure what is considered to be old, but this doesn't seem that old to me.
The commands from your post did fix it.

xparanoik

@jimp thanks :) I have a pfSense box about 6,000 miles away, I owe you a beer!

dsp3

@jimp You are a star. Thank you

bippus

same here:
intel appliance, installed on November 2019:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on
/dev/msdosfs/EFISYS 780K 387K 393K 50% 3 509 1% /boot/efi

stephenw10

Best option is reinstall.
If you're unable to do that then follow jimp's instructions here: https://forum.netgate.com/post/1140955

MushyMiddle

@jimp Brilliant! Worked a treat. Thanks!

P.S. This was an old-ish UFS install, probably originally 2.6.0. Originally installed in early 2021, most likely.