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    2.4.4 fails upgrade and fresh installation

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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    • J
      jbhowlesr
      last edited by jbhowlesr

      @grimson I hope this works out. When is 2.50 coming?

      Boot FreeBSD 12? I’ll try that and see what happens.

      Do you have a link for a distro I can download?

      Is it possible that my hardware is just too new? It worked fine in 2.4.2 and 2.4.3

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      • RicoR
        Rico LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance
        last edited by

        Well you can try now by booting and install https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/FreeBSD-12.0-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso

        -Rico

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        • RicoR
          Rico LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance
          last edited by

          And with this image you can verify the problem with your hardware is upstream pfSense in FreeBSD 11.2: https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/11.2/FreeBSD-11.2-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso

          -Rico

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          • GrimsonG
            Grimson Banned @jbhowlesr
            last edited by

            @jbhowlesr said in 2.4.4 fails upgrade and fresh installation:

            Let’s take a step back. I create the install media and boot the system off of it. It boots the media and before giving any prompts or (I) spinning pipes, I get the error in the photo in the beginning of this thread.

            @jbhowlesr said in 2.4.4 fails upgrade and fresh installation:

            @rico it will appear briefly but not show a spinning pipe (I) symbol.

            You said nothing shows up, and now it does show up? What is it now?

            If it does show do what it tells, hit Escape and go from there.

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              jbhowlesr @Rico
              last edited by

              @rico

              I’ll try that when I get home.

              I’m a huge fan of snort and is one of about 3 reasons I push pfsense but fact remains that I’m getting this errors on a lot of systems that all worked with previous version of pfsense

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              • jimpJ
                jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                last edited by

                As it boots, just keep whacking the space bar.

                In the next few days we'll have 2.5.0 snapshots to try, based on FreeBSD 12, which is more likely to help.

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                  jbhowlesr @jimp
                  last edited by

                  @jimp if I do this and if i get a prompt, I’m unclear as to what I need to do with this file that’s been mentioned

                  /boot/loader.conf.local

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                  • RicoR
                    Rico LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance
                    last edited by

                    0_1552762937805_pfSense_boot_loader-prompt.png

                    -Rico

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                      jbhowlesr @Rico
                      last edited by

                      @rico

                      Perfect. This is exactly what I have been asking for. Thank you so much.

                      On my way home and will give that a shot when I get there.

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                      • J
                        jbhowlesr @Rico
                        last edited by

                        @rico

                        Big shout out here cause this worked and the system is installing now.

                        I’ll post again after it’s all up and running and report any further issues

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                          jbhowlesr @Rico
                          last edited by

                          @rico

                          Sir, pfsense is running great. However, anytime a reboot occurs, I gotta enter the disable=1 string in your photo. How do I automate this so it can reboot unattended?

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                          • RicoR
                            Rico LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance
                            last edited by Rico

                            Now to make it persistent run
                            echo "hint.sdhci_pci.1.disabled=\"1\"" >> /boot/loader.conf.local
                            after booting from console or SSH.

                            -Rico

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                              jbhowlesr @Rico
                              last edited by jbhowlesr

                              @rico

                              To make sure I’m following you

                              Open >> "/boot/loader.conf.local” using the pfsense file editor”

                              And add echo "hint.sdhci_pci.1.disabled="1"" to the bottom of the file.

                              Save then restart the system.

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                              • GertjanG
                                Gertjan
                                last edited by

                                echo "hint.sdhci_pci.1.disabled=\"1\"" >> /boot/loader.conf.local
                                

                                is the same thing as opening the file /boot/loader.conf.local and adding
                                hint.sdhci_pci.1.disabled="1"
                                in it.

                                No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                                Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                                  jbhowlesr @Gertjan
                                  last edited by jbhowlesr

                                  @gertjan

                                  I’m in the file system now. A file called loader.conf.local does not exist. However, a file called loader.conf exists and I made a copy of it and renamed to loader.conf.local and edited that file with the line above.

                                  EDIT: just tried this and it didn’t work. Obviously I’m missing something?

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                                  • RicoR
                                    Rico LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance
                                    last edited by

                                    Just login via SSH and type or copy/paste
                                    echo "hint.sdhci_pci.1.disabled=\"1\"" >> /boot/loader.conf.local
                                    reboot and thats it.

                                    -Rico

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                                    • stephenw10S
                                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                      last edited by

                                      The file: /boot/loader.conf.local should contain only the line:
                                      hint.sdhci_pci.1.disabled=1

                                      You might add more stuff to it later but since you had to just create it it shouldn't right now.

                                      Steve

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                                        jbhowlesr @stephenw10
                                        last edited by

                                        @stephenw10

                                        Thank you much. I did this and it worked like a champ. It’s now booting automatically without needing interaction.

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                                          jbhowlesr @stephenw10
                                          last edited by

                                          @stephenw10 @Rico If I may ask, what is STHC I and why is it now becoming a problem

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                                          • stephenw10S
                                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                            last edited by stephenw10

                                            SDHCI is the FreeBSD driver for the SD card bus. For whatever reason it is not playing nicely with the hardware on your board (and a number of other boards). As jimp referred to above the upgrade to FreeBSD 11.2 brought some changes to that driver including the ability to use a different mode which seems incompatible here. If you really needed that you might be able to force it to use the lesser mode but that's not something I've ever tried.

                                            https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sdhci&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+11.2-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html

                                            Steve

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