23.09.1 - pfsense-boot fails to upgrade

alethewizard

Please read https://forum.netgate.com/topic/184661/unable-to-upgrade-from-2-7-1-to-2-7-2-unmounting-boot-efi-done-failed/15

jimp

The EFI partition isn't mounted there.

Do you have either /dev/msdosfs/EFISYS or /dev/gpt/EFISYS? If so, try this instead:

# mount_msdosfs /dev/msdosfs/EFISYS /boot/efi

Or

# mount_msdosfs /dev/gpt/EFISYS /boot/efi

Followed by the df -hi /boot/efi/efi/boot/ command.

valerion

@jimp said in 23.09.1 - pfsense-boot fails to upgrade:

The EFI partition isn't mounted there.

Do you have either /dev/msdosfs/EFISYS or /dev/gpt/EFISYS? If so, try this instead:
# mount_msdosfs /dev/msdosfs/EFISYS /boot/efi
Or
# mount_msdosfs /dev/gpt/EFISYS /boot/efi
Followed by the df -hi /boot/efi/efi/boot/ command.

I have the same results as others in the other thread.

Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on
/dev/msdosfs/EFISYS 779K 386K 393K 50% 3 509 1% /boot/efi

Guess there's a re-install in my future

jimp

Probably going to have to reinstall then in that case.

The old loader was quite a bit smaller. The newest version of the EFI loader is 643K which would barely fit in that partition, and since the installer tries to copy the new one over before deleting the old, it fails because there isn't enough room to hold both.

jimp

Reinstalling is the safest fix, but if you want to attempt to fix the partition manually, you can try the commands I posted in the other thread:

https://forum.netgate.com/post/1140955

But be sure to heed all the warnings.

Arcao

Same problem on my bare metal installation (pfSense installed in version 2.4.4, periodically updated to latest release, migrated to pfSense+).

@jimp Could you promote this issue as a known issue and arrange for it to be added into the release notes for other affected users?

pfBo

Hi all,

Sorry for the delay but here are my answers to (hopefully) all your questions and suggestions:

System info:
============
Netgate 5100 - Serial: NGXXXXXXXXXXXXXX - Netgate Device ID: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

*** Welcome to Netgate pfSense Plus 23.09-RELEASE (amd64) on XXXXXXXXXX ***

gpart show:
===========
=>      40  15269808  mmcsd0  GPT  (7.3G)
        40    409600       1  efi  (200M)
    409640  14094335       2  freebsd-ufs  (6.7G)
  14503975         1          - free -  (512B)
  14503976    763904       3  freebsd-swap  (373M)
  15267880      1968          - free -  (984K)

df -hi /boot/efi/efi/boot/
df: /boot/efi/efi/boot/: No such file or directory

mount_msdosfs /dev/msdosfs/EFISYS /boot/efi

df -hi /boot/efi/efi/boot/
Filesystem             Size    Used   Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/msdosfs/EFISYS    779K    644K    135K    83%       3   509    1%   /boot/efi

I don't mind reinstall if that's necessary but the system is about 600 miles away so it'll have to wait a few days until I get there.

Best regards,

Bo

stephenw10

Yes, you are affected by this because of that 800K EFI size. The system cannot update the EFI loader. It will require either reinstalling or expanding in place using the procedure in the linked post above.

pfBo

@stephenw10 yes, I can confirm that the workaround worked for me as well. Thanks for all the help.

bps

@jimp said in 23.09.1 - pfsense-boot fails to upgrade:

https://forum.netgate.com/post/1140955

This fixed my issue thanks @jimp