Upgrade to 2.7.0 - APU 2 can't see boot loader
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I just upgraded pfSense from 2.6.0 to 2.7.0 via the GUI, and am now getting the following errors in the console:
Booting from Hard Disk...
No /boot/loaderFreeBSD/x86 boot
Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel
boot:
No /boot/kernel/kernel -
Do you have the upgrade log?
Without that it's hard to say what might have happened.
It's probably fastest to in install 2.7 clean and restore your config.
Steve
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Thanks Stephen. I just did a fresh install and was able to get in. Thanka for the suggestion.
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Not sure if this is related. Yesterday I did a quick Test upgrade on one of our lab devices and after the upgrade it would not boot successfully. Only had a few minutes to look at it so I power cycled and tried booting using the previous kernel where it booted up successfully.
When back in the lab I will check if there is a No /boot/loader message.
Cheers,
Mark[1/2] Upgrading pfSense-base from 2.7.0.b.20230621.1553 to 2.7.0...
[1/2] Extracting pfSense-base-2.7.0: .. done -
Ok, came into the lab today to check things out and it is something different.
Discovered it was stopping at EFI framebuffer information .. so on a hunch changed BIOS from legacy boot to UEFI boot and it came right up. Interesting as I didn't think an upgrade would do that.
Cheers, Mark -
Mmm, I wouldn't have expected it to. Perhaps it was running a much older boot loader? Was it installed as 2.6 originally?
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What command did you use to boot the old kernel from boot: ?
I was running pfSense 2.6.0 at the time.
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@stephenw10 ... hmm, trying to remember. pretty sure the initial install was 2.7 devel (zfs) to get the 2.5 Gb nics working. Did an upgrade to b.20230621.1553 without issue.
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@LSE4 from the console it was booting to a menu with a kernel option #6 I believe ... then just Enter.
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@SuperTypeGuy said in Upgrade to 2.7.0 - APU 2 can't see boot loader:
pretty sure the initial install was 2.7 devel (zfs) to get the 2.5 Gb nics working.
Not an APU2 then?
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@stephenw10 yes correct, not an apu2. :-) We do have experience with pcengines tho. Since the alix!
BIOS Vendor: American Megatrends International, LLC.
CPU Type Intel(R) Pentium(R) Silver N6005 @ 2.00GHz
Current: 1148 MHz, Max: 1996 MHz
4 CPUs: 1 package(s) x 4 core(s)
AES-NI CPU Crypto: Yes (active)
Memory 16GB
4 x Intel(R) Ethernet Controller I226-V
