upgrade to 2.4.4 hangs at booting...

TomTheOne

Hi Stephen

No sorry, false alert. It had another root cause why the box rebooted at this stage - has nothing to do with pfsense itself.

Last question: Is it possible for the next installer, that this option "kern.vty=sc" could be added to the installer image as well (if it's still required then)? So we become able to install the pfSens to non UEFI systems from scratch?

Best regards
Tom

stephenw10

Well, we have no way of knowing which systems will require it. But you can still enter it as a boot loader variable at the prompt when the installer boots. Same procedure as booting the installed image.

Steve

jimp

If FreeBSD fixes the original bug causing the problem then we wouldn't need any workarounds on the installer anyhow.

TomTheOne

Got it - thank you a lot!

scottt732

I ran into the first part of the same issue on a SuperMicro box where pfSense started up but the console was stuck at Booting... / (I'm not running into the getty/ttyv0 issue).

I was able to ssh in and edit /boot/loader.conf to add the kern.vty=sc flag & reboot and it's good to go now. Thanks!

stephenw10

You should put it in /boot/loader.conf.local to avoid it being overwritten at update. Create that file if you don't have one.

Steve

Teken

Is the line entry attached correct or should it be placed elsewhere?? 0_1543116742322_Booting Hangs.PNG

stephenw10

The entry should be:
kern.vty=sc
It should be in the file /boot/loader.conf.local. We can't see what file that is you're using.

For exmple:

[2.4.4-RELEASE][admin@home.stevew.lan]/root: cat /boot/loader.conf.local
kern.cam.boot_delay=10000
kern.vty=sc

Steve

jimp

@teken said in upgrade to 2.4.4 hangs at booting...:

Is the line entry attached correct or should it be placed elsewhere??

The quotes are wrong. Your OS appears to have used some kind of quotes that are not actually double quotes " but something else entirely. What they are depends on the OS but it's probably something like OS X "Curly Quotes".

Removing the quotes is one way around that.

larold

So.. hopefully you guys don't mind reviving this thread. Have the same issue, made the update to the conf file. Pfsense boots now, but doesn't fully boot I get a bunch of unable to load PHP errors. This is not persistent, even though I can see that entry in my conf file I have to escape the boot loader and enter it in manually. My hardware is as follows :

Intel J1900 2Ghz Quad core with a TDP of 10 watts

1600/1333MHz DDR3L 1.35V Memory. 1 slot, up to 8GB

4GB RAM included

4* Intel 82583v Intel 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet, which support Wake-on-LAN and PXE

1* SATA 2* mini pcie for MSATA

32GB mSATA drive included

2* USB2.0 4* 1* VGA 1* COM (25pin) 1& VGA, 1 rj45 COM port

Power Input DC 12V 5.5mm x 2.5mm barrel jack OR 1* 4 pin ATX 12V Input

mini ITX form factor

Let me know what other information you need.
I made a bootable USB, but even that hangs at booting..... Can't even do a fresh install.

stephenw10

You can interrupt the boot loader to set that value when booting the installer as well as the first boot after installing.

Or you can set it to boot and install UEFI which should not be affected by that issue.

Or it looks like you have a serial console so you can install using that instead.

Steve

larold

@stephenw10 yep I was finally able to get it after interrupting the boot on both the install and initial boot.