Cannot boot after successful 2.7.2 install - EFI partition problem?
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Hmm, you might need to connect the drives directly. If that's possible.
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@stephenw10 No, the drives are SAS 12Gb/s so they need to connect to the backplane which connects to a controller. Is there a known working controller that's compatible with a PowerEdge R630 that I could try?
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Hmm, I would have expected that to work in some mode. Maybe it has a different controller firmware?
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@stephenw10 No, it was updated to the latest controller firmware (25.5.9.0001) from the Dell website.
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Cloud it be that this bug has popped up again?
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=230557 -
@mvikman said in Cannot boot after successful 2.7.2 install - EFI partition problem?:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=230557
Doesn't seem exactly the same as that. There's no panic here.
Do you have a full boot log we can check?
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@mvikman said in Cannot boot after successful 2.7.2 install - EFI partition problem?:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=230557
I think it looks quite possible that it's this bug, even though it's closed. There is two drives (not one in RAID 0) so the panic isn't expected. I'll get the installer boot log and send it to you and @stephenw10 in case it helps. Is there a way to try this
hw.mfi.mrsas_enable="1"
option with the pfSense installer? -
@User6buinf43 said in Cannot boot after successful 2.7.2 install - EFI partition problem?:
Is there a way to try this hw.mfi.mrsas_enable="1" option with the pfSense installer?
I was able to set this option by choosing "3. Escape to loader prompt" and using these commands:
set hw.mfi.mrsas_enable="1"
bootThe drives then showed up as da0 and da1 with the manufacturer/model displayed instead of just mfisyspd. Installation worked and it boots!
Still trying to find a way to get a boot log from the installer.
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Nice! You can add that permanently as loader variable:
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/config/advanced-tunables.html#managing-loader-tunables -
Thanks @stephenw10 and @mvikman!