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    23.09 ->24.03 unable to update boot code on /dev/ada1

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      crazy-chipmunk @stephenw10
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      @stephenw10 its 23.09.1

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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        Hmm, what does the output of gpart list show?

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          crazy-chipmunk @stephenw10
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          @stephenw10

          Geom name: ada0
          modified: false
          state: OK
          fwheads: 16
          fwsectors: 63
          last: 234441607
          first: 40
          entries: 128
          scheme: GPT
          Providers:

          1. Name: ada0p1
            Mediasize: 272629760 (260M)
            Sectorsize: 512
            Stripesize: 0
            Stripeoffset: 20480
            Mode: r1w1e2
            efimedia: HD(1,GPT,91e94734-972e-11ee-a4cb-3cecef02e694,0x28,0x82000)
            rawuuid: 91e94734-972e-11ee-a4cb-3cecef02e694
            rawtype: c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b
            label: efiboot0
            length: 272629760
            offset: 20480
            type: efi
            index: 1
            end: 532519
            start: 40
          2. Name: ada0p2
            Mediasize: 524288 (512K)
            Sectorsize: 512
            Stripesize: 0
            Stripeoffset: 272650240
            Mode: r0w0e0
            efimedia: HD(2,GPT,91ec3082-972e-11ee-a4cb-3cecef02e694,0x82028,0x400)
            rawuuid: 91ec3082-972e-11ee-a4cb-3cecef02e694
            rawtype: 83bd6b9d-7f41-11dc-be0b-001560b84f0f
            label: gptboot0
            length: 524288
            offset: 272650240
            type: freebsd-boot
            index: 2
            end: 533543
            start: 532520
          3. Name: ada0p3
            Mediasize: 1073741824 (1.0G)
            Sectorsize: 512
            Stripesize: 0
            Stripeoffset: 273678336
            Mode: r1w1e0
            efimedia: HD(3,GPT,91f0a445-972e-11ee-a4cb-3cecef02e694,0x82800,0x200000)
            rawuuid: 91f0a445-972e-11ee-a4cb-3cecef02e694
            rawtype: 516e7cb5-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b
            label: swap0
            length: 1073741824
            offset: 273678336
            type: freebsd-swap
            index: 3
            end: 2631679
            start: 534528
          4. Name: ada0p4
            Mediasize: 118686220288 (111G)
            Sectorsize: 512
            Stripesize: 0
            Stripeoffset: 1347420160
            Mode: r1w1e1
            efimedia: HD(4,GPT,91f3ff1e-972e-11ee-a4cb-3cecef02e694,0x282800,0xdd12000)
            rawuuid: 91f3ff1e-972e-11ee-a4cb-3cecef02e694
            rawtype: 516e7cba-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b
            label: zfs0
            length: 118686220288
            offset: 1347420160
            type: freebsd-zfs
            index: 4
            end: 234440703
            start: 2631680
            Consumers:
          5. Name: ada0
            Mediasize: 120034123776 (112G)
            Sectorsize: 512
            Mode: r3w3e6

          Geom name: ada1
          modified: false
          state: OK
          fwheads: 16
          fwsectors: 63
          last: 234441607
          first: 40
          entries: 128
          scheme: GPT
          Providers:

          1. Name: ada1p1
            Mediasize: 272629760 (260M)
            Sectorsize: 512
            Stripesize: 0
            Stripeoffset: 20480
            Mode: r0w0e0
            efimedia: HD(1,GPT,92020f93-972e-11ee-a4cb-3cecef02e694,0x28,0x82000)
            rawuuid: 92020f93-972e-11ee-a4cb-3cecef02e694
            rawtype: c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b
            label: efiboot1
            length: 272629760
            offset: 20480
            type: efi
            index: 1
            end: 532519
            start: 40
          2. Name: ada1p2
            Mediasize: 524288 (512K)
            Sectorsize: 512
            Stripesize: 0
            Stripeoffset: 272650240
            Mode: r0w0e0
            efimedia: HD(2,GPT,9203962b-972e-11ee-a4cb-3cecef02e694,0x82028,0x400)
            rawuuid: 9203962b-972e-11ee-a4cb-3cecef02e694
            rawtype: 83bd6b9d-7f41-11dc-be0b-001560b84f0f
            label: gptboot1
            length: 524288
            offset: 272650240
            type: freebsd-boot
            index: 2
            end: 533543
            start: 532520
          3. Name: ada1p3
            Mediasize: 1073741824 (1.0G)
            Sectorsize: 512
            Stripesize: 0
            Stripeoffset: 273678336
            Mode: r1w1e0
            efimedia: HD(3,GPT,9207392d-972e-11ee-a4cb-3cecef02e694,0x82800,0x200000)
            rawuuid: 9207392d-972e-11ee-a4cb-3cecef02e694
            rawtype: 516e7cb5-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b
            label: swap1
            length: 1073741824
            offset: 273678336
            type: freebsd-swap
            index: 3
            end: 2631679
            start: 534528
          4. Name: ada1p4
            Mediasize: 118686220288 (111G)
            Sectorsize: 512
            Stripesize: 0
            Stripeoffset: 1347420160
            Mode: r1w1e1
            efimedia: HD(4,GPT,920a9cad-972e-11ee-a4cb-3cecef02e694,0x282800,0xdd12000)
            rawuuid: 920a9cad-972e-11ee-a4cb-3cecef02e694
            rawtype: 516e7cba-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b
            label: zfs1
            length: 118686220288
            offset: 1347420160
            type: freebsd-zfs
            index: 4
            end: 234440703
            start: 2631680
            Consumers:
          5. Name: ada1
            Mediasize: 120034123776 (112G)
            Sectorsize: 512
            Mode: r2w2e3
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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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            Is that system booting uefi?

            [24.03-RELEASE][admin@4200.stevew.lan]/root: sysctl machdep.bootmethod
            machdep.bootmethod: UEFI
            

            Do you know what version it was originally installed as?

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              crazy-chipmunk @stephenw10
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              @stephenw10
              Yes booting UEFI.

              Originally installed many years ago before plus etc. Converted to plus when that happened and updates went ok till 23.05.1 Then failed badly going from 23.05.1 to 23.09 with boot errors. UEFI partition was too small for the new update and the default installer would not erase the drive the re-create the partitions so had to attach the drives to another system, delete all partitions and then put the drives back into the pfsense system and then able to install CE 2.7.1. Subsequently had to upgrade back to plus 23.09 before I could use my backup config to restore.

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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                Hmm, is it already mounted perhaps? What doe mount -p show?

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                  crazy-chipmunk @stephenw10
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                  @stephenw10

                  pfSense/ROOT/default	/			zfs	rw,noatime,nfsv4acls 	0 0
                  devfs			/dev			devfs	rw		0 0
                  /dev/gpt/efiboot0	/boot/efi		msdosfs	rw		2 2
                  pfSense/tmp		/tmp			zfs	rw,nosuid,noatime,nfsv4acls 	0 0
                  pfSense/var		/var			zfs	rw,noatime,nfsv4acls 	0 0
                  pfSense			/pfSense		zfs	rw,noatime,nfsv4acls 	0 0
                  pfSense/home		/home			zfs	rw,noatime,nfsv4acls 	0 0
                  pfSense/var/log		/var/log		zfs	rw,noexec,nosuid,noatime,nfsv4acls 	0 0
                  pfSense/var/cache	/var/cache		zfs	rw,noexec,nosuid,noatime,nfsv4acls 	0 0
                  pfSense/var/empty	/var/empty		zfs	rw,noatime,nfsv4acls 	0 0
                  pfSense/var/db		/var/db			zfs	rw,noexec,nosuid,noatime,nfsv4acls 	0 0
                  pfSense/var/tmp		/var/tmp		zfs	rw,nosuid,noatime,nfsv4acls 	0 0
                  pfSense/reservation	/pfSense/reservation	zfs	rw,noatime,nfsv4acls 	0 0
                  pfSense/ROOT/default/cf	/cf			zfs	rw,noexec,nosuid,noatime,nfsv4acls 	0 0
                  pfSense/ROOT/default/var_cache_pkg /var/cache/pkg		zfs	rw,noexec,nosuid,noatime,nfsv4acls 	0 0
                  pfSense/ROOT/default/var_db_pkg /var/db/pkg		zfs	rw,noexec,nosuid,noatime,nfsv4acls 	0 0
                  tmpfs			/var/run		tmpfs	rw		0 0
                  
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                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                    @crazy-chipmunk said in 23.09 ->24.03 unable to update boot code on /dev/ada1:

                    /dev/gpt/efiboot0

                    Hmm so it is still mounted from ada0 but not ada1. 🤔

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                      crazy-chipmunk @stephenw10
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                      @stephenw10
                      I haven't rebooted the device yet as I don't know what happens and did not want to have to resetup everything from scratch, so posted here and waiting. Thanks for taking a look.

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                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                        I would expect it to have done nothing because it aborted the upgrade process.

                        I find it odd it not log updating ada0p1 but perhaps it would have done that after ada1p1.

                        It doesn't actually need to update the efiboot partition so it should still boot fine in the instance that the 24.03 upgrade did take place.

                        However we hit this in testing on some other install configurations and it just didn't upgrade. We also put in fixes to allow it to complete for everything we hit though.

                        I'll try to replicate it but it looks like you have a pretty standard ZFS mirror there. It could be something hardware specific.

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                          crazy-chipmunk @stephenw10
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                          @stephenw10
                          Yes, rebooted successfully back to 23.09.1 as you said, upgrade did not complete. No other environments visible. Would it be useful for you to have the full output from the upgrade process? I can attach here if you like. Thanks again for looking into this issue.

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                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                            Yes any additional data you can provide would be great, thanks.

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                                crazy-chipmunk @stephenw10
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                                @stephenw10
                                I attached the full output from the failed upgrade as a txt file.

                                More Hardware and Setup details
                                Supermicro A2SDi-4C-HLN4F motherboard. Latest bios 1.9a. 8gb ECC supermicro memory
                                Additional pfSense packages installed: Wireguard, System_patches, OpenVPN-Client-Export, Nut

                                I also uninstalled the packages and tried to upgrade and that failed as well with the same error as expected

                                I have attached 2 text files with drive details.

                                pfsense update failed.txt
                                ada0-drive-details.txt
                                ada1-drive-details.txt

                                Thanks for all your help. Hope you can help me find a fix. Thanks again.

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                                • stephenw10S
                                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                  Hmm, not easy to replicate so far at least.

                                  Since you have tried to install you should be able to try running the install-boot code directly like:

                                  [23.09.1-RELEASE][root@plusdev-4.stevew.lan]/root: install-boot
                                  System Configuration
                                  
                                  Architecture: amd64
                                  Boot Devices: /dev/ada0
                                                /dev/ada1
                                   Boot Method: uefi
                                    Filesystem: zfs
                                      Platform: QEMU Guest
                                  
                                  Proced with updating boot code? [y/N]: y
                                  
                                  Updating boot code...
                                  
                                  /usr/local/sbin/../libexec/install-boot.sh -b auto -f zfs -s gpt -u ada1
                                  gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 2 ada1
                                  partcode written to ada1p2
                                  bootcode written to ada1
                                  ESP /dev/ada1p1 mounted on /tmp/stand-test.bSVnmC
                                  263440KB space remaining on ESP: renaming old bootx64.efi file /efi/boot/bootx64.efi /efi/boot/bootx64-old.efi
                                  263440KB space remaining on ESP: renaming old loader.efi file /etc/freebsd/loader.efi /etc/freebsd/loader-old.efi
                                  Copying loader.efi to /EFI/freebsd on ESP
                                  Creating UEFI boot entry for FreeBSD
                                  Marking UEFI boot entry 0008 active
                                  Copying bootx64.efi to /efi/boot on ESP
                                  Unmounting and cleaning up temporary mount point
                                  Finished updating ESP
                                  
                                  /usr/local/sbin/../libexec/install-boot.sh -b auto -f zfs -s gpt -u ada0
                                  gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 2 ada0
                                  partcode written to ada0p2
                                  bootcode written to ada0
                                  ESP /dev/ada0p1 mounted on /tmp/stand-test.G3cO9h
                                  264784KB space remaining on ESP: renaming old bootx64.efi file /efi/boot/bootx64.efi /efi/boot/bootx64-old.efi
                                  264784KB space remaining on ESP: renaming old loader.efi file /etc/freebsd/loader.efi /etc/freebsd/loader-old.efi
                                  Copying loader.efi to /EFI/freebsd on ESP
                                  Creating UEFI boot entry for FreeBSD
                                  Marking UEFI boot entry 0009 active
                                  Copying bootx64.efi to /efi/boot on ESP
                                  Unmounting and cleaning up temporary mount point
                                  Finished updating ESP
                                  
                                  Done.
                                  

                                  Do you see any other errors there? Or any errors in the system log after running it?

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                                  • stephenw10S
                                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                    Ok it's probably this: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/15083

                                    Likely that EFI partition was never formatted when it was originally installed. Running the commands listed there to create the fat32 filesystem should allow it to complete the upgrade.

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                                      crazy-chipmunk @stephenw10
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                                      @stephenw10
                                      You are correct. This is exactly what the problem was. EFI partition was never formatted after creation. I followed the steps you outlined and the upgrade completed successfully. Thank you so much for taking the time to figure out the issue and helping me. Have a great day!

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