Update to latest 2.4.x failed on VK-T40E2

raginjason

The other night I went to update to the latest point release of pfSense and when it rebooted it never came back. Looking at the serial terminal, this is what I see upon boot:

PC Engines APU BIOS build date: Apr  5 2014
Reading data from file [bootorder]
SeaBIOS (version ?-20140405_120742-frink)
SeaBIOS (version ?-20140405_120742-frink)
Found coreboot cbmem console @ 7e150400
Found mainboard PC Engines APU
Relocating init from 0x000e8e71 to 0x7e1065e0 (size 39259)
Found CBFS header at 0xfffffb90
found file "bootorder" in cbmem
CPU Mhz=1000
Found 27 PCI devices (max PCI bus is 05)
Copying PIR from 0x7e160400 to 0x000f27a0
Copying MPTABLE from 0x7e161400/7e161410 to 0x000f25b0 with length 1ec
Copying ACPI RSDP from 0x7e162400 to 0x000f2590
Copying SMBIOS entry point from 0x7e16d800 to 0x000f2570
Using pmtimer, ioport 0x808
Scan for VGA option rom
EHCI init on dev 00:12.2 (regs=0xf7f08420)
Found 1 lpt ports
Found 2 serial ports
AHCI controller at 11.0, iobase f7f08000, irq 11
EHCI init on dev 00:13.2 (regs=0xf7f08520)
EHCI init on dev 00:16.2 (regs=0xf7f08620)
Searching bootorder for: /rom@img/setup
Searching bootorder for: /rom@img/memtest
OHCI init on dev 00:12.0 (regs=0xf7f04000)
OHCI init on dev 00:13.0 (regs=0xf7f05000)
OHCI init on dev 00:14.5 (regs=0xf7f06000)
OHCI init on dev 00:16.0 (regs=0xf7f07000)
Searching bootorder for: /pci@i0cf8/usb@16,2/storage@1/*@0/*@0,0
Searching bootorder for: /pci@i0cf8/usb@16,2/usb-*@1
USB MSC vendor='Multiple' product='Card  Reader' rev='1.00' type=0 removable=1
USB MSC blksize=512 sectors=15523840
All threads complete.
Scan for option roms
Running option rom at c000:0003
 
 
iPXE (http://ipxe.org) 00:00.0 C000 PCI2.10 PnP PMMpmm call arg1=1
pmm call arg1=0
+7E0DA5C0pmm call arg1=1
pmm call arg1=0
+7E03A5C0 C000
 
 
 
Searching bootorder for: /rom@genroms/pxeboot.rom
 
Build date: Apr  5 2014
System memory size: 2017 MB
 
Press F12 for boot menu.
 
Searching bootorder for: HALT
drive 0x000f2520: PCHS=0/0/0 translation=lba LCHS=966/255/63 s=15523840
Space available for UMB: c1000-ee800, f0000-f2520
Returned 245760 bytes of ZoneHigh
e820 map has 6 items:
  0: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 = 1 RAM
  1: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 = 2 RESERVED
  2: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 = 2 RESERVED
  3: 0000000000100000 - 000000007e14c000 = 1 RAM
  4: 000000007e14c000 - 000000007f000000 = 2 RESERVED
  5: 00000000f8000000 - 00000000f9000000 = 2 RESERVED
enter handle_19:
  NULL
Booting from Hard Disk...
Booting from 0000:7c00
 
F1  FreeBSD
 
F6 PXE
Boot:  F1
//bboooott//ccoonnffiigg::  --SS111155220000  --DD
 
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Any thoughts on how to recover from this?

Rico

https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/backup/automatically-restore-during-install.html

-Rico

Grimson

https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/solutions/vk-t40e/reinstall-pfsense.html

raginjason

@grimson so you're thinking the install is hosed and reinstallation is the available recourse at this time?

stephenw10

Is the terminal set to 115200bps? If it's set to 9600 or 38400 then that would be all you would see.

Otherwise yes you can always re-install:
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/solutions/vk-t40e/reinstall-pfsense.html

That will ensure you have a clean install. It's quick and easy if you have an mSATA drive. If you are booting from SD card you can install directly to it but you should remove the swap partition at install and move /var and /tmp to RAM after setup.

It doesn't look like you were running Nano though so it's probably not booting SD.

Steve