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      mikey_s @stephenw10
      last edited by mikey_s

      @stephenw10

      Yes it’s an UEFI device.

      Planning on doing a check and fresh install of 2.7, then update to 23.09.1 and testing again.

      Will highlight what I find and such.

      It is my spare XG230 Rev2, I have my main Plus install on a XG135 Rev2.

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        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        Run: sysctl machdep.bootmethod

        That will show you what it's actually booted.

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          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @mikkom
          last edited by

          @mikkom

          What hardware is that?

          Can you try running efibootmgr at the CLI and see what error it shows?

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            mikey_s @stephenw10
            last edited by

            @stephenw10

            efibootmgr: efi variables not supported on this system. root? kldload efirt?

            XG230 Rev2 is a 1U Sophos appliance made by caswell. My unit is based on a Haswell CPU - i3-6100T as I swapped the CPU from a G4400.

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              mikey_s @stephenw10
              last edited by mikey_s

              @stephenw10

              machdep.bootmethod: BIOS

              Interesting, a re-checked the BIOS and it was UEFI and BIOS, so I'm going to re-install and then upgrade and again.

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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                last edited by

                Ah, Ok. Yes you're hitting that bug directly then. If you install as both but then boot legacy that's when you will hit it. There's a fix for that incoming.

                If you switch the BIOS to boot uefi it will pass that. Or install legacy only.

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                  mikey_s @stephenw10
                  last edited by

                  @stephenw10

                  I switched to UEFi in the BIOS and still issue, so will do a fresh install and re-test.

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                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                    last edited by

                    Is it actually booting uefi? The sysctl command show it is?

                    If so try running efibootmgr at the CLI and see what it returns.

                    You may have an interesting edge case.

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                      mikey_s @stephenw10
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                      @stephenw10

                      In process of rebuilt, so fresh 2.7.2 and upgrading to 23.09.1 atm and then I'll go to the RC and feedback.

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                        mikey_s
                        last edited by mikey_s

                        Rebuilt and now updated

                        Boot to FW : false
                        BootCurrent: 0000
                        Timeout : 3 seconds
                        BootOrder : 0000, 0004, 0003
                        +Boot0000* FreeBSD
                        Boot0004* UEFI OS
                        Boot0003 UEFI: Built-in EFI Shell

                        machdep.bootmethod: UEFI

                        Now to deceide if I use a Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-6100T CPU @ 3.20GHz or a Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU C3558 @ 2.20GHz with QAT.

                        The XG 135 Rev3 with Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU C3558 @ 2.20GHz is my prod system, the above is my testing system.

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                        • stephenw10S
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                          last edited by

                          Ok well that won't hit the issue now.

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                            mikey_s @stephenw10
                            last edited by

                            @stephenw10 said in 24.03 beta to 24.03 RC upgrade failed:

                            Ok well that won't hit the issue now.

                            Many thanks

                            Happy to build it back to how it was if you want a system in BIOS mode, but I expect you're all already on the case and don't need my minimal input.

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                            • stephenw10S
                              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                              last edited by

                              If you have some special edge case it could be useful. The OP here has unexpected output from efibootmgr for example.

                              It usually either fails entirely like you originally saw or returns the list of boot entries without error. Anything other than that would be useful to test on.

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