2.8 upgrade fail

xman111

hey guys, tried the in place upgrade and a standalone install of 2.8, both same failure.. any help would be appreciated, error screen attached.

patient0

@xman111 I just copy my answer to another user with the same issue:

"a few people ran into issues with the intel wifi cards on 2.8.0.

If you can disable the wifi module in the BIOS (or physically remove it), that would be best. If that is not possible, you can disable the wifi card at the boot prompt (to be able to boot) and make it permanent in /boot/loader.conf.local.

Kernel Panic when Upgrading to 2.8.0 beta

xman111

@patient0

hey, thanks so much for this. i don't use the wireless, i will check in the bios and report back. Really appreciate it, i missed that thread!!

xman111

@patient0

yup, pressed 3 and used the hint, worked great.. was able to load my 2.72 config, thanks so much.

just have to try to create the /boot/loader.conf.local on my 2.8 install so it will persist through boots.

patient0

@xman111 said in 2.8 upgrade fail:

just have to try to create the /boot/loader.conf.local on my 2.8 install so it will persist through boots.

From the pfSense console/serial run below command and it will append the necessary line to /boot/loader.conf.local

echo 'hint.iwm.0.disabled="1"' >> /boot/loader.conf.local

And confirm with cat /boot/loader.conf.local

xman111

@patient0

perfect, thanks so much, up and running with 2.8!