Upgrade to latest: Unable to load a kernel

jjonsson · Apr 11, 2014, 9:55 AM

Hi!

I chose to upgrade from webconsole. Now when my pfSense VMWare virtual machine boots it says:

Unable to load a kernel

What to do ?

I have very little experience with FreeBSD and Linux.

Help!

doktornotor · Apr 11, 2014, 11:16 AM

Uhm… reinstall and restore config backup?

jjonsson · Apr 11, 2014, 1:27 PM

What if I don't have config backup :-(

cmb · Apr 13, 2014, 4:31 AM

What did you upgrade it from and to? There have been some rough patches with 2.2 snapshots at points by the nature of alpha snapshots, some of which were missing kernels, which would cause this. No stable release has ever caused this kind of thing to happen.

You can boot off the live CD, fsck and mount the drive, and copy the config off.

jjonsson · Apr 13, 2014, 5:00 PM

@cmb

Thanks, I would like to try that but don't know how. Can you explain ?