23.09.1 to 24.03 Beta Not Setting Proper Boot Environment

Lurick

@cmcdonald
A bit confused because it's doing this but it keeps booting into the non-temp boot environment which is the old version. So it seems to be behaving backwards to what it should be doing?

Current Boot Environment: default_20240308062713 
  Temporary Boot Environment: default                
 Next Boot Environment: default_20240308062713

I did this and didn't see any additional output after rebooting either:

[24.03-BETA][admin@]/root: bectl mount default_20240308062713
boot environment is already mounted
Failed to mount bootenv default_20240308062713 at temporary path (null)
[24.03-BETA][admin@firewall]/root: bectl mount default
/tmp/be_mount.2qOj
[24.03-BETA][admin@firewall]/root: touch /tmp/be_mount.2qOj/verbose_rc
[24.03-BETA][admin@firewall]/root: bectl unmount -f default

I did capture a couple videos though, will send those over shortly.

Lurick

Sent both videos with links.

cmcdonald

@Lurick

What version of CE did you upgrade from?

Lurick

@cmcdonald I can't even remember at the moment, I might not have even done that since I think I started on 22.01 from the ISO but maybe it was the CE version available around that time. So maybe 2.5?

cmcdonald

@Lurick

The problem is your boot loader is REALLY old. As old as whatever the first version you installed was. So old in fact that the loader at that time didn't even understand temporary boot environments.

We recently started updating the boot loader on EFI but haven't done the BIOS path yet. I'm working on that today.

In the mean time, I will circile back after lunch and give you instructions on how to update the boot loader manually.

Lurick

@cmcdonald That makes sense, yah the VM has been around for a while now so that's not surprising!

cmcdonald

@Lurick

What's the output from

gpart show

Lurick

@cmcdonald

/root: gpart show
=>       40  157286320  da0  GPT  (75G)
         40       1024    1  freebsd-boot  (512K)
       1064        984       - free -  (492K)
       2048    2097152    2  freebsd-swap  (1.0G)
    2099200  155185152    3  freebsd-zfs  (74G)
  157284352       2008       - free -  (1.0M)

cmcdonald

@Lurick said in 23.09.1 to 24.03 Beta Not Setting Proper Boot Environment:

@cmcdonald

/root: gpart show
=>       40  157286320  da0  GPT  (75G)
         40       1024    1  freebsd-boot  (512K)
       1064        984       - free -  (492K)
       2048    2097152    2  freebsd-swap  (1.0G)
    2099200  155185152    3  freebsd-zfs  (74G)
  157284352       2008       - free -  (1.0M)

cool

so you'll want to do the following (assuming default is still the upgraded BE and default_20240308062713 is the old BE.

bectl mount default
gpart bootcode -b /tmp/be_mount.XXXX/boot/pmbr -p /tmp/be_mount.XXXX/boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 da0
bectl unmount -f default
bectl activate -t default
shutdown -r now

You should now boot into default at which point it will set itself to be the Next Boot Environment (assuming that it does boot properly)

Lurick

@cmcdonald Awesome, thanks!
It booted up just fine and without issue, just had to fix the typo, haha :)
Will monitor over the next couple of updates and make sure but hopefully that fixed it!

cmcdonald

@Lurick

And I will be teaching the pfSense-boot package how to update BIOS systems :)

Lurick

@cmcdonald
Awesome, just make sure you use default and not defaut ;)

cmcdonald

@Lurick

Fixed above lol

Lurick

@cmcdonald
Just a quick update, all good with the latest build too so no more issues updating :)

cmcdonald

@Lurick glad we finally found the root cause