pfSense CE 2.8.0 upgrade stalls after reboot and gets stuck in Stage 2
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Note: Updated the topic to include the fact that the issue was occurring during stage 2 of the upgrade.
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something I learnt last week, was it seems the display for the console can freeze whilst the system carries on booting and working as normal.
No idea if it is happening here, but it is odd it stops on a video message.
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@chrcoluk As stated above "Letting it sit trying to load for an hour" no effect. When this happened to me (and others) the entire system was completely locked up. Nothing but a hard reset would bring it back.
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may be I go the issue we just nee dot reboot the firewall and select the old kernel and boot the firewall after boot it will reboot again and you can access the latest version of firewall which 2.8.0 I tried and it work for me.
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Does 2.8.1 fix these issues?
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Which issues specifically? The UEFI console issue is still present AFAIK. Though it doesn't actually affect anything I have available to test.
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I haven’t caught up with the whole thread. All I can say is 2.7.2 works okay on my HP DL380gen9 but 2.8.0 won’t boot after the upgrade.
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It appears to hang immediately after loading the kernel at the UEFI console?
Try booting legacy to confirm it's the same issue.
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I have this issue too, it will fail to boot (it's a VM in unraid)
The fix, to change console to video first -
Like set video console as primary before running the upgrade? Interesting. I wouldn't have expected that to affect it.
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@stephenw10 no, when rebooting after updating it got stuck on the menu screen, never booted, so I changed to video console and then it booted
