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    Upgrade from 2.7.2 to 2.8.0 Failed and now /boot/efi/ empty

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      Sinfonia97 @Patch
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      @Patch I only attempted the upgrade once so nothing else broke. It was just the issue that jimp provided the fix for. Unfortunately his instructions were using /dev/msdosfs/EFISYS which my system does not have.

      I probably should have mentioned early on I am running bare metal on an old watchguard M500 with an upgraded CPU that was required for the future releases of PFSense.

      Here are my CPU stats in case anyone was wondering:

      CPU Type	Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-4130 CPU @ 3.40GHz
                      4 CPUs: 1 package(s) x 2 core(s) x 2 hardware threads
                      AES-NI CPU Crypto: Yes (inactive)
                      QAT Crypto: No
      
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        Sinfonia97 @stephenw10
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        @stephenw10 That is exactly what I've been trying to do is the jimp fix. Unfortunately I am needing help that hopefully will confirm what I think is the directory that /boot/efi should be mounted to. Once I figure that out, I should be able to finish with jimp's instructions and correct the size problem and upgrade to 2.8.

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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          It looks to be mounted correctly since you have the EFI dircetory structure there. As long as you also have the actual efi file(s) there:

          [25.07-RC][admin@6100.stevew.lan]/root: du -ha /boot/efi
          656K	/boot/efi/efi/freebsd/loader.efi
          656K	/boot/efi/efi/freebsd/loader-old.efi
          1.3M	/boot/efi/efi/freebsd
          656K	/boot/efi/efi/boot/bootx64.efi
          656K	/boot/efi/efi/boot/bootx64-old.efi
          1.3M	/boot/efi/efi/boot
          2.6M	/boot/efi/efi
          2.6M	/boot/efi
          
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            Sinfonia97 @stephenw10
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            @stephenw10 When I run that command I currently get the following:

            512B	/boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/STARTUP.NSH
            1.0K	/boot/efi/EFI/BOOT
            1.5K	/boot/efi/EFI
            1.5K	/boot/efi
            

            When I look at the STARTUP.NSH file it references BOOTx64.efi. In my research for this issue I found that I should be able to replace the missing BOOTx64.efi file with a copied and renamed loader.efi from the /boot directory. Unfortunately I have not been able to verify that is true. It appears that typically PFSense uses the loader.efi, but my STARTUP.NSH file references BOOTx64.efi.

            So this is where I am at currently. Need to verify if I can use a copy of loader.efi to replace my BOOTx64.efi. Also just need to make sure based on the information I have provided that /boot/efi is mounted to the correct directory. In my case I believe it should be /dev/adaop1. Only other location I would consider mounting it to would be /dev/msdosfs/EFI as that is close to what @jimp posted in his fix for the space issue.

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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              Hmm, without an efi binary there at all it will fail to boot. So don't reboot without copying back something!

              I would say those files are indeed identical:

              [25.07-RC][admin@6100.stevew.lan]/root: md5sum /boot/efi/efi/boot/bootx64.efi 
              aa4529badf1fe88a5ca8941c04f144cb  /boot/efi/efi/boot/bootx64.efi
              [25.07-RC][admin@6100.stevew.lan]/root: md5sum /boot/efi/efi/freebsd/loader.efi
              aa4529badf1fe88a5ca8941c04f144cb  /boot/efi/efi/freebsd/loader.efi
              [25.07-RC][admin@6100.stevew.lan]/root: md5sum /boot/loader.efi
              aa4529badf1fe88a5ca8941c04f144cb  /boot/loader.efi
              

              So you should be able to copy that across

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                Sinfonia97 @stephenw10
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                @stephenw10 Thank you, that's great to know. That takes care of one part. Now if I can verify that /dev/ada0p1 is the correct location to mount /boot/efi I will be able to finish following @jimp process.

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                  The output of gpart list should confirm that. There will only be one EFI partition.

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                    Sinfonia97 @stephenw10
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                    @stephenw10 Thanks again. I ran gpart list before and this is the output I received and why I figured /dev/ada01p was the correct location to mount /boot/efi. Let me know if you see the same thing:

                    Geom name: ada0
                    modified: false
                    state: OK
                    fwheads: 16
                    fwsectors: 63
                    last: 488397127
                    first: 40
                    entries: 128
                    scheme: GPT
                    Providers:
                    1. Name: ada0p1
                       Mediasize: 209715200 (200M)
                       Sectorsize: 512
                       Stripesize: 0
                       Stripeoffset: 20480
                       Mode: r1w1e2
                       efimedia: HD(1,GPT,ac1172b7-5651-11e8-b5a2-00907fd0950c,0x28,0x64000)
                       rawuuid: ac1172b7-5651-11e8-b5a2-00907fd0950c
                       rawtype: c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b
                       label: (null)
                       length: 209715200
                       offset: 20480
                       type: efi
                       index: 1
                       end: 409639
                       start: 40
                    2. Name: ada0p2
                       Mediasize: 245677162496 (229G)
                       Sectorsize: 512
                       Stripesize: 0
                       Stripeoffset: 209735680
                       Mode: r1w1e2
                       efimedia: HD(2,GPT,ac11fbb1-5651-11e8-b5a2-00907fd0950c,0x64028,0x1c99c000)
                       rawuuid: ac11fbb1-5651-11e8-b5a2-00907fd0950c
                       rawtype: 516e7cb6-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b
                       label: (null)
                       length: 245677162496
                       offset: 209735680
                       type: freebsd-ufs
                       index: 2
                       end: 480247847
                       start: 409640
                    3. Name: ada0p3
                       Mediasize: 4172430848 (3.9G)
                       Sectorsize: 512
                       Stripesize: 0
                       Stripeoffset: 245886898176
                       Mode: r1w1e1
                       efimedia: HD(3,GPT,ac128803-5651-11e8-b5a2-00907fd0950c,0x1ca00028,0x7c591f)
                       rawuuid: ac128803-5651-11e8-b5a2-00907fd0950c
                       rawtype: 516e7cb5-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b
                       label: (null)
                       length: 4172430848
                       offset: 245886898176
                       type: freebsd-swap
                       index: 3
                       end: 488397126
                       start: 480247848
                    Consumers:
                    1. Name: ada0
                       Mediasize: 250059350016 (233G)
                       Sectorsize: 512
                       Mode: r3w3e8
                    

                    This was also before I did a temp mount of /boot/efi to /dev/ada0p1.

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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                      Yup looks good.

                      Of course I'd still have a backup of the config etc! ๐Ÿ˜‰

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                        Sinfonia97 @stephenw10
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                        @stephenw10 Perfect, thank you again. I already created a backup before the botched upgrade, so I should be good there. May take another one just in case.

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                          Sinfonia97
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                          Wanted to provide an update on where I am at the moment. After finishing the steps from jimp I am now back to where I should have been before attempting the upgrade.

                          Output from df -hi /boot/efi

                          Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused  Mounted on
                          /dev/ada0p1    197M    646K    196M     0%       0     0     -   /boot/efi
                          

                          Output from du -ha /boot/efi

                          512B	/boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/STARTUP.NSH
                          644K	/boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTx64.efi
                          645K	/boot/efi/EFI/BOOT
                          645K	/boot/efi/EFI
                          646K	/boot/efi
                          

                          Output from geom -t

                          Geom                                                 Class      Provider
                          ada0                                                 DISK       ada0
                            ada0                                               DEV
                            ada0                                               PART       ada0p1
                              ada0p1                                           DEV
                              msdosfs.ada0p1                                   VFS
                            ada0                                               PART       ada0p2
                              ada0p2                                           DEV
                              ada0p2                                           LABEL      gptid/ac11fbb1-5651-11e8-b5a2-00907fd0950c
                                gptid/ac11fbb1-5651-11e8-b5a2-00907fd0950c     DEV
                                ffs.gptid/ac11fbb1-5651-11e8-b5a2-00907fd0950c VFS
                            ada0                                               PART       ada0p3
                              ada0p3                                           DEV
                              ada0p3                                           LABEL      gptid/ac128803-5651-11e8-b5a2-00907fd0950c
                                gptid/ac128803-5651-11e8-b5a2-00907fd0950c     DEV
                                swap                                           SWAP
                          

                          Output from gpart list

                          Geom name: ada0
                          modified: false
                          state: OK
                          fwheads: 16
                          fwsectors: 63
                          last: 488397127
                          first: 40
                          entries: 128
                          scheme: GPT
                          Providers:
                          1. Name: ada0p1
                             Mediasize: 209715200 (200M)
                             Sectorsize: 512
                             Stripesize: 0
                             Stripeoffset: 20480
                             Mode: r1w1e1
                             efimedia: HD(1,GPT,ac1172b7-5651-11e8-b5a2-00907fd0950c,0x28,0x64000)
                             rawuuid: ac1172b7-5651-11e8-b5a2-00907fd0950c
                             rawtype: c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b
                             label: (null)
                             length: 209715200
                             offset: 20480
                             type: efi
                             index: 1
                             end: 409639
                             start: 40
                          2. Name: ada0p2
                             Mediasize: 245677162496 (229G)
                             Sectorsize: 512
                             Stripesize: 0
                             Stripeoffset: 209735680
                             Mode: r1w1e2
                             efimedia: HD(2,GPT,ac11fbb1-5651-11e8-b5a2-00907fd0950c,0x64028,0x1c99c000)
                             rawuuid: ac11fbb1-5651-11e8-b5a2-00907fd0950c
                             rawtype: 516e7cb6-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b
                             label: (null)
                             length: 245677162496
                             offset: 209735680
                             type: freebsd-ufs
                             index: 2
                             end: 480247847
                             start: 409640
                          3. Name: ada0p3
                             Mediasize: 4172430848 (3.9G)
                             Sectorsize: 512
                             Stripesize: 0
                             Stripeoffset: 245886898176
                             Mode: r1w1e1
                             efimedia: HD(3,GPT,ac128803-5651-11e8-b5a2-00907fd0950c,0x1ca00028,0x7c591f)
                             rawuuid: ac128803-5651-11e8-b5a2-00907fd0950c
                             rawtype: 516e7cb5-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b
                             label: (null)
                             length: 4172430848
                             offset: 245886898176
                             type: freebsd-swap
                             index: 3
                             end: 488397126
                             start: 480247848
                          Consumers:
                          1. Name: ada0
                             Mediasize: 250059350016 (233G)
                             Sectorsize: 512
                             Mode: r3w3e7
                          

                          I know the last 2 shouldn't have changed, which they didn't. Just wanted to put them in here to document the changes.

                          Now I just need some time to try the upgrade again, and in case everything goes completely south I have time to rebuild.

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                          • stephenw10S
                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                            Cool. Does it reboot successfully from there?

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                              Sinfonia97 @stephenw10
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                              @stephenw10 Unfortunately I am going to have to wait till I can bring down the network to test. If I take it down now and it doesn't come back up I will be having some hell to pay from the family...lol. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

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