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    ZFS zpool mirror 24.03.r.20240410.1729

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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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      Hmm, so it was a clean 23.09 install?

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        LostInIgnorance @stephenw10
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        @stephenw10 I am sorry, I was thinking of my SG-1100. I looked back on my history, so the last time this was rebuilt is on my post before with 2.6

        I was able to replicate it twice after the reload. If you do a setup with 2.6 on the device, upgrade it to plus pushing it into 22.01, then do the upgrade to 22.05, and finally upgrade to the latest snapshot, I was able to wreck the EFI ZFS booting on the firewall.

        https://forum.netgate.com/post/1071604

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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          Hmm, but since then you were able to upgrade to 23.09.1 OK? And in fact to the last public beta image of 24.03 OK?

          Also when this fails you are booting the old kernel to get access to the system, then rolling back the ZFS snapshot?

          This feels like a UEFI quirk with the upgraded boot-loader. Though if the old kernel boots using the new loader that refutes that. 🤔

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            LostInIgnorance @stephenw10
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            @stephenw10 I am only able to boot with the kernel.old after upgrade. When I do this, it rolls it back to the last successful upgrade which was 3/22. I rolled it manually back by selecting the star to 23.09.1 as my primary snapshot now. I had tried the upgrade to 24.03.r.20240410.1729 and any prior snapshot that was released worked up until the pause on builds till the 4/10 image where the issues started.

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @LostInIgnorance
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              @LostInIgnorance said in ZFS zpool mirror 24.03.r.20240410.1729:

              When I do this, it rolls it back to the last successful upgrade which was 3/22.

              Ah you mean it automatically rolls back the BE snapshot because it failed to boot into the RC?

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                LostInIgnorance @stephenw10
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                @stephenw10 Yes that is correct

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                  Ok. We're still trying to replicate this locally.

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                  • JeGrJ
                    JeGr LAYER 8 Moderator @stephenw10
                    last edited by JeGr

                    @stephenw10 Just to chime in: I have a 6100 as a dev-box with 2 NVMes installed and with a ZMirror Pool, that one updated all the way from 23.09.1 to various betas to RC currently without problems with booting. So could be something more specific to the C2758 otherwise I'd guess I'd have stumbled upon it as well?

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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                      Yes indeed. It feels like some UEFI quirk with the BIOS in that device. So far we have not seen it here on anything tested.

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                        LostInIgnorance @stephenw10
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                        @stephenw10 After a deep discovery on my device, it looks like the ZFS mirror has not been rebuilt for quite some time (unsure really of how long as I have had this C2758 for quite a while for home). I know there was some problems long ago with some partitions not being sized correctly as part of an upgrade, needed to be rebuilt. I cleared all data from both drives and re-installed the CE edition with a "GPT (UEFI)" mirror. The prior mirror had been built with "GPT (BIOS)" and the new one is strictly "GPT (UEFI)". From there restored my config and upgraded to Plus.

                        I am unsure how many of these oddities played into the issue I had seen on a few different releases, but it is not always bad to start from a clean slate.

                        Shortly I am going to be testing my upgrade to the latest RC.

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                        • stephenw10S
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                          Hmm, interesting. Where it stops there is at the EFI framebuffer which is something I'd only expect when it boots UEFI.

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