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      musicwizard @SteveITS
      last edited by

      @SteveITS said in cant upgrade to 2.7.2:

      @musicwizard Is it a really old server/install that has been upgraded over the years?

      on this one i started maybe on 2.5 i think. i got a newer box for pfsense but that isnt setup yet.

      its an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7500U

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        Mmm, well I would have expected that to be new enough but older systems can have an EFI partition that is too small.

        Try running gpart list and check the size. It should be at least 200MB. For example:

        1. Name: da0p1
           Mediasize: 272629760 (260M)
           Sectorsize: 512
           Stripesize: 0
           Stripeoffset: 20480
           Mode: r1w1e2
           efimedia: HD(1,GPT,c9024410-fde3-11ee-bfd2-0008a212ecd4,0x28,0x82000)
           rawuuid: c9024410-fde3-11ee-bfd2-0008a212ecd4
           rawtype: c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b
           label: efiboot0
           length: 272629760
           offset: 20480
           type: efi
           index: 1
           end: 532519
           start: 40
        
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          musicwizard @stephenw10
          last edited by

          @stephenw10 said in cant upgrade to 2.7.2:

          Mmm, well I would have expected that to be new enough but older systems can have an EFI partition that is too small.

          Try running gpart list and check the size. It should be at least 200MB. For example:

          1. Name: da0p1
             Mediasize: 272629760 (260M)
             Sectorsize: 512
             Stripesize: 0
             Stripeoffset: 20480
             Mode: r1w1e2
             efimedia: HD(1,GPT,c9024410-fde3-11ee-bfd2-0008a212ecd4,0x28,0x82000)
             rawuuid: c9024410-fde3-11ee-bfd2-0008a212ecd4
             rawtype: c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b
             label: efiboot0
             length: 272629760
             offset: 20480
             type: efi
             index: 1
             end: 532519
             start: 40
          

          it seems mine is exactly 200
          209715200 (200M)

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            Hmm, is that system actually booting UEFI?

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              musicwizard @stephenw10
              last edited by musicwizard

              @stephenw10 said in cant upgrade to 2.7.2:

              Hmm, is that system actually booting UEFI?

              it should be. it showed the same values as you except mine 200M
              label and type both efi

              this is the first update i had this problem i have a 128 gb nvme in there i think it was.d08e86c2-786c-4f09-b672-437c65e6b1eb-image.png

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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                last edited by

                Run sysctl machdep.bootmethod just to be sure it's booting UEFI. It's possible that partition was never formatted if not.

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                  musicwizard @stephenw10
                  last edited by

                  @stephenw10 said in cant upgrade to 2.7.2:

                  sysctl machdep.bootmethod

                  yes macdep.bootmethode: UEFI

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                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                    last edited by

                    Hmm, OK what does geom -t show?

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                      musicwizard @stephenw10
                      last edited by

                      @stephenw10 said in cant upgrade to 2.7.2:

                      geom -t

                      f525eb0a-87fa-406f-89a8-e509e6d998d6-image.png

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                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                        last edited by

                        Is it mounted? How does it show in the output of df -hi?

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                        • stephenw10S
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                          last edited by

                          If the filesystem is just smaller than the partition you may be able to fix that with the commands shown here:
                          https://forum.netgate.com/post/1140955

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                            musicwizard @stephenw10
                            last edited by

                            @stephenw10 said in cant upgrade to 2.7.2:

                            Is it mounted? How does it show in the output of df -hi?

                            9b1d5842-9da9-4c76-9cb1-427352108e07-image.png

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                              musicwizard @stephenw10
                              last edited by

                              @stephenw10 said in cant upgrade to 2.7.2:

                              If the filesystem is just smaller than the partition you may be able to fix that with the commands shown here:
                              https://forum.netgate.com/post/1140955

                              i did follow it and the update went thru. And it installed the update to 2.7.2 without problems it seems. Thank you.

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                              • stephenw10S
                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                last edited by

                                Ah, cool. 👍

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