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

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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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        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! 😉

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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. 😃

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