pfSense CE 2.8.0 upgrade stalls after reboot and gets stuck when loading

mtis

@dropkick said in pfSense CE 2.8.0 upgrade stalls after reboot and gets stuck when loading:

HP DL360 Gen9, 2.8 upgrade no good in UEFI mode. Tried upgrades (2.7.2) and fresh installs, all matter of EFI BIOS switches, BIOS console settings, clearing EFI boot entries, 'boot'ing from the boot menu CLI, even fresh SSDs. Hard auto-reboot at the EFI framebuffer section after BSD boot selector screen each time. Finally switched to Legacy Mode and it worked. This is a FreeBSD issue, not Netgate's. Come on, BSD, it's 2025! Legacy mode? At least my NICs were still recognized. Other than that it's a bog standard DL360 with current firmware. Probably this issue: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/15074

Did several VM based installs at remote sites no problems. This was the first of the bare metal ones.

p.s. And not having an real install .iso is getting annoying. I could see where recovering from a cold start could be challenging in some environments.

Exactly the same for me on my HP DL360 gen9. I've gone back to 2.7.2 for now.

oldhome7

@stephenw10 it locks up loading the new kernel so I can't really read too many lines on the screen above that, none of which show uart. And with it not booting, I'm not getting any logs.

If I load it with the kernel.old option, I can't find uart in any of the logs.

oldhome7

@stephenw10 I do have the serial ports disabled in the BIOS, if that matters.

nvt-150

I did upgrade on a HPE DL360 Gen9 (Not sure if legacy) and can confirm it is just rebooting right after post.

It did boot with the old kernel post 2.7.2 => 2.8.0 upgrade, but after finishing upgrade and throwing a alot of weird errors, it has stopped booting with old kernel.
It's just stuck in a black screen whatever I do.

Reverting to 2.7.2 with a full reinstall :(

Screen of the point where the server just reboots:

stephenw10

Well there you can see it's set to serial console only and you're looking at the EFI console.

@oldhome7 said in pfSense CE 2.8.0 upgrade stalls after reboot and gets stuck when loading:

I do have the serial ports disabled in the BIOS

Try enabling one.

i386DX

@nvt-150 said in pfSense CE 2.8.0 upgrade stalls after reboot and gets stuck when loading:

Screen of the point where the server just reboots:

Same here on HPE Microserver Gen10 plus. 2.8.0 just reboots after reporting efi framebuffer information:

Setting the server to legacy bios mode and reinstalling works fine but then it can't boot nvme disks and I would prefer not having to replace the hdd on all hpe machines.

@stephenw10 do you have any suggestions on how to get some output on why it is rebooting? What I've (unsuccessfully) tried so far:
2.8.0 clean install with netgate installer iso
enabling single user mode
enabling verbose mode
setting console=efi
setting copy_staging enable

Thank you for your support

stephenw10

There are two things I have seen make a difference there when we hit this in a VM and I'm not sure why either did but worth testing.

Enabling a serial port if you don't have one.

Escaping to the loader prompt then running boot from there. Which should be identical but...

If either makes any difference then we have at least shown it's the same issue.

nvt-150

@i386DX Have any luck connecting a monitor?

i386DX

@nvt-150 nope, this was with a monitor connected to the vga port, I've not tried attaching to the dp output yet but I do not think it will make a difference.

@stephenw10 I managed to get the system to boot up correctly just by (I think) disabling the efi console at the bootloader prompt:
set console=comconsole
boot

Note that this hardware has virtual console port you can interact to by connecting ilo via ssh then running the VSP command.
I see serial console output until the 'Bootup complete' message, then there is no cli on virtual serial port, however i see the cli as usual on the vga screen and I can interact normally via both physical keyboard and ilo integrated remote console.
It was my understanding that console=comconsole would not provide a video console, but adding it to /boot/loader.conf.local fixed the problem for me.

Console output for reference

OK set console=comconsole
OK boot
Loading kernel...
/boot/kernel/kernel text=0x1a9888 text=0x1014f68 text=0xeb1c04 data=0x180+0xe80 data=0x250280+0x3afd80 0x8+0x1d8ff8+0x8+0x1ef881
Loading configured modules...
can't find '/etc/hostid'
/boot/kernel/zfs.ko size 0x60a278 at 0x2fc9000
/boot/kernel/opensolaris.ko size 0x1e2a8 at 0x35d4000
/boot/entropy size=0x1000
staging 0x57800000 (not copying) tramp 0x6f5fe000 PT4 0x6f5f5000
Start @ 0xffffffff803aa000 ...
EFI framebuffer information:
addr, size     0x84000000, 0x300000
dimensions     1024 x 768
stride         1024
masks          0x00ff0000, 0x0000ff00, 0x000000ff, 0xff000000
GDB: no debug ports present
KDB: debugger backends: ddb
KDB: current backend: ddb
---<<BOOT>>---
Copyright (c) 1992-2024 The FreeBSD Project.
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FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT #1 RELENG_2_8_0-n256081-401ec5f685b9: Wed May 21 23:53:51 UTC 2025
    root@freebsd:/var/jenkins/workspace/pfSense-CE-snapshots-2_8_0-main/obj/amd64/0q9vjGjc/var/jenkins/workspace/pfSense-CE-snapshots-2_8_0-main/sources/FreeBSD-src-RELENG_2_8_0/amd64.amd64/sys/pfSense amd64
FreeBSD clang version 19.1.5 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git llvmorg-19.1.5-0-gab4b5a2db582)
VT(efifb): resolution 1024x768
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Gold G5420 CPU @ 3.80GHz (3800.00-MHz K8-class CPU)
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  Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
  Features2=0x4ffaebbf<SSE3,PCLMULQDQ,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,SDBG,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,PCID,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,MOVBE,POPCNT,TSCDLT,AESNI,XSAVE,OSXSAVE,RDRAND>
  AMD Features=0x2c100800<SYSCALL,NX,Page1GB,RDTSCP,LM>
  AMD Features2=0x121<LAHF,ABM,Prefetch>
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  IA32_ARCH_CAPS=0xa000c04<RSBA>
  VT-x: PAT,HLT,MTF,PAUSE,EPT,UG,VPID
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avail memory = 8067420160 (7693 MB)
Event timer "LAPIC" quality 600
ACPI APIC Table: <HPE    Server  >
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs
FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 2 core(s) x 2 hardware threads
random: registering fast source Intel Secure Key RNG
random: fast provider: "Intel Secure Key RNG"
random: unblocking device.
ioapic0 <Version 2.0> irqs 0-119
Launching APs: 1 2 3
TCP_ratelimit: Is now initialized
ipw_bss: You need to read the LICENSE file in /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_ipw.LICENSE.
ipw_bss: If you agree with the license, set legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1 in /boot/loader.conf.
module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (ipw_bss_fw, 0xffffffff80758a00, 0) error 1
ipw_ibss: You need to read the LICENSE file in /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_ipw.LICENSE.
ipw_ibss: If you agree with the license, set legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1 in /boot/loader.conf.
module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (ipw_ibss_fw, 0xffffffff80758ab0, 0) error 1
ipw_monitor: You need to read the LICENSE file in /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_ipw.LICENSE.
ipw_monitor: If you agree with the license, set legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1 in /boot/loader.conf.
module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (ipw_monitor_fw, 0xffffffff80758b60, 0) error 1
iwi_bss: You need to read the LICENSE file in /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_iwi.LICENSE.
iwi_bss: If you agree with the license, set legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 in /boot/loader.conf.
module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (iwi_bss_fw, 0xffffffff807781d0, 0) error 1
iwi_ibss: You need to read the LICENSE file in /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_iwi.LICENSE.
iwi_ibss: If you agree with the license, set legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 in /boot/loader.conf.
module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (iwi_ibss_fw, 0xffffffff80778280, 0) error 1
iwi_monitor: You need to read the LICENSE file in /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_iwi.LICENSE.
iwi_monitor: If you agree with the license, set legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 in /boot/loader.conf.
module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (iwi_monitor_fw, 0xffffffff80778330, 0) error 1
random: entropy device external interface
wlan: mac acl policy registered
kbd1 at kbdmux0
WARNING: Device "spkr" is Giant locked and may be deleted before FreeBSD 15.0.
efirtc0: <EFI Realtime Clock>
efirtc0: registered as a time-of-day clock, resolution 1.000000s
netgate0: <unknown hardware>
netgate0: version: 0.1
smbios0: <System Management BIOS> at iomem 0x6883b000-0x6883b017
smbios0: Version: 3.1
acpi0: <HPE Server>
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
attimer0: <AT timer> port 0x40-0x43,0x50-0x53 irq 0 on acpi0
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
Event timer "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 100
hpet0: <High Precision Event Timer> iomem 0xfed00000-0xfed003ff on acpi0
Timecounter "HPET" frequency 24000000 Hz quality 950
Event timer "HPET" frequency 24000000 Hz quality 550
Event timer "HPET1" frequency 24000000 Hz quality 440
Event timer "HPET2" frequency 24000000 Hz quality 440
Event timer "HPET3" frequency 24000000 Hz quality 440
Event timer "HPET4" frequency 24000000 Hz quality 440
Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 900
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x508-0x50b on acpi0
apei0: <ACPI Platform Error Interface> on acpi0
acpi_syscontainer0: <System Container> on acpi0
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff numa-domain 0 on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> numa-domain 0 on pcib0
pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 numa-domain 0 on pci0
pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> numa-domain 0 on pcib1
nvme0: <Generic NVMe Device> mem 0x80500000-0x8053ffff,0x80540000-0x8057ffff at device 0.0 numa-domain 0 on pci1
xhci0: <Intel Cannon Lake USB 3.1 controller> mem 0x80600000-0x8060ffff at device 20.0 numa-domain 0 on pci0
xhci0: 32 bytes context size, 64-bit DMA
usbus0 numa-domain 0 on xhci0
usbus0: 5.0Gbps Super Speed USB v3.0
pci0: <memory, RAM> at device 20.2 (no driver attached)
pci0: <simple comms> at device 22.0 (no driver attached)
pci0: <simple comms> at device 22.4 (no driver attached)
pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 27.0 numa-domain 0 on pci0
pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> numa-domain 0 on pcib2
pcib3: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 28.0 numa-domain 0 on pci0
pci3: <ACPI PCI bus> numa-domain 0 on pcib3
igb0: <Intel(R) I350 (Copper)> port 0x2060-0x207f mem 0x80300000-0x803fffff,0x8040c000-0x8040ffff at device 0.0 numa-domain 0 on pci3
igb0: EEPROM V1.63-0 Option ROM V1-b2529-p0 eTrack 0x8000108f
igb0: Using 1024 TX descriptors and 1024 RX descriptors
igb0: Using 2 RX queues 2 TX queues
igb0: Using MSI-X interrupts with 3 vectors
igb0: Ethernet address: 94:40:c9:ed:58:96
igb0: netmap queues/slots: TX 2/1024, RX 2/1024
igb1: <Intel(R) I350 (Copper)> port 0x2040-0x205f mem 0x80200000-0x802fffff,0x80408000-0x8040bfff at device 0.1 numa-domain 0 on pci3
igb1: EEPROM V1.63-0 Option ROM V1-b2529-p0 eTrack 0x8000108f
igb1: Using 1024 TX descriptors and 1024 RX descriptors
igb1: Using 2 RX queues 2 TX queues
igb1: Using MSI-X interrupts with 3 vectors
igb1: Ethernet address: 94:40:c9:ed:58:97
igb1: netmap queues/slots: TX 2/1024, RX 2/1024
igb2: <Intel(R) I350 (Copper)> port 0x2020-0x203f mem 0x80100000-0x801fffff,0x80404000-0x80407fff at device 0.2 numa-domain 0 on pci3
igb2: EEPROM V1.63-0 Option ROM V1-b2529-p0 eTrack 0x8000108f
igb2: Using 1024 TX descriptors and 1024 RX descriptors
igb2: Using 2 RX queues 2 TX queues
igb2: Using MSI-X interrupts with 3 vectors
igb2: Ethernet address: 94:40:c9:ed:58:98
igb2: netmap queues/slots: TX 2/1024, RX 2/1024
igb3: <Intel(R) I350 (Copper)> port 0x2000-0x201f mem 0x80000000-0x800fffff,0x80400000-0x80403fff at device 0.3 numa-domain 0 on pci3
igb3: EEPROM V1.63-0 Option ROM V1-b2529-p0 eTrack 0x8000108f
igb3: Using 1024 TX descriptors and 1024 RX descriptors
igb3: Using 2 RX queues 2 TX queues
igb3: Using MSI-X interrupts with 3 vectors
igb3: Ethernet address: 94:40:c9:ed:58:99
igb3: netmap queues/slots: TX 2/1024, RX 2/1024
pcib4: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 29.0 numa-domain 0 on pci0
pci4: <ACPI PCI bus> numa-domain 0 on pcib4
vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> mem 0x84000000-0x84ffffff,0x85b98000-0x85b9bfff,0x85000000-0x857fffff at device 0.1 numa-domain 0 on pci4
vgapci0: Boot video device
ehci0: <EHCI (generic) USB 2.0 controller> mem 0x85b9c000-0x85b9c0ff at device 0.4 numa-domain 0 on pci4
usbus1: EHCI version 1.0
usbus1 numa-domain 0 on ehci0
usbus1: 480Mbps High Speed USB v2.0
pcib5: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 29.1 numa-domain 0 on pci0
pci5: <ACPI PCI bus> numa-domain 0 on pcib5
pcib6: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 29.2 numa-domain 0 on pci0
pci6: <ACPI PCI bus> numa-domain 0 on pcib6
pcib7: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 29.3 numa-domain 0 on pci0
pci7: <ACPI PCI bus> numa-domain 0 on pcib7
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 31.0 numa-domain 0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> numa-domain 0 on isab0
pci0: <serial bus> at device 31.5 (no driver attached)
cpu0: <ACPI CPU> numa-domain 0 on acpi0
uart0: <Non-standard ns8250 class UART with FIFOs> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0
uart0: console (115200,n,8,1)
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3b0-0x3bb iomem 0xb0000-0xb7fff pnpid PNP0900 on isa0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
hwpstate_intel0: <Intel Speed Shift> numa-domain 0 on cpu0
cpufreq0: <CPU frequency control> numa-domain 0 on cpu0
hwpstate_intel1: <Intel Speed Shift> numa-domain 0 on cpu1
cpufreq1: <CPU frequency control> numa-domain 0 on cpu1
hwpstate_intel2: <Intel Speed Shift> numa-domain 0 on cpu2
cpufreq2: <CPU frequency control> numa-domain 0 on cpu2
hwpstate_intel3: <Intel Speed Shift> numa-domain 0 on cpu3
cpufreq3: <CPU frequency control> numa-domain 0 on cpu3
Timecounter "TSC-low" frequency 1896010194 Hz quality 1000
Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
ugen1.1: <(0x103c) EHCI root HUB> at usbus1
ZFS filesystem version: 5
ZFS storage pool version: features support (5000)
ugen0.1: <Intel XHCI root HUB> at usbus0
uhub0 numa-domain 0 on usbus1
uhub0: <(0x103c) EHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus1
uhub1 numa-domain 0 on usbus0
uhub1: <Intel XHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 3.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus0
nvme0: async event occurred (type 0x1, info 0x01, page 0x02)
nvme0: SMART WARNING: temperature above threshold
nda0 at nvme0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 1
nda0: <Micron_7400_MTFDKBA400TFC E1MU23BC 21473D9B6024>
nda0: Serial Number 21473D9B6024
nda0: nvme version 1.4
nda0: 381554MB (781422768 512 byte sectors)
Trying to mount root from zfs:pfSense/ROOT/default []...
Root mount waiting for: usbus0 usbus1
uhub1: 22 ports with 22 removable, self powered
ugen0.2: <Logitech USB Keyboard> at usbus0
ukbd0 numa-domain 0 on uhub1
ukbd0: <Logitech USB Keyboard, class 0/0, rev 1.10/49.20, addr 1> on usbus0
kbd2 at ukbd0
uhid0 numa-domain 0 on uhub1
uhid0: <Logitech USB Keyboard, class 0/0, rev 1.10/49.20, addr 1> on usbus0
ugen0.3: <vendor 0x0424 product 0x2660> at usbus0
uhub2 numa-domain 0 on uhub1
uhub2: <vendor 0x0424 product 0x2660, class 9/0, rev 2.00/8.01, addr 2> on usbus0
Root mount waiting for: usbus0 usbus1
uhub2: 2 ports with 1 removable, self powered
ugen0.4: <Kingston DataTraveler 3.0> at usbus0
umass0 numa-domain 0 on uhub1
umass0: <Kingston DataTraveler 3.0, class 0/0, rev 3.20/0.01, addr 3> on usbus0
da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus1 target 0 lun 0
da0: <Kingston DataTraveler 3.0 > Removable Direct Access SPC-4 SCSI device
da0: Serial Number E0D55EA57410F37169741117
da0: 400.000MB/s transfers
da0: 14755MB (30218842 512 byte sectors)
da0: quirks=0x2<NO_6_BYTE>
uhub0: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered
Root mount waiting for: usbus1
ugen1.2: <iLO Virtual Keyboard> at usbus1
ukbd1 numa-domain 0 on uhub0
ukbd1: <iLO Virtual Keyboard, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.02, addr 2> on usbus1
kbd3 at ukbd1
Dual Console: Serial Primary, Video Secondary
Configuring crash dumps...
Using /dev/gpt/swap1 for dump device.
Filesystems are clean, continuing...
Mounting filesystems...
Mounting ZFS boot environment... done.

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| '_ \| |_/ __|/ _ \ '_ \/ __|/ _ \
| |_) |  _\__ \  __/ | | \__ \  __/
| .__/|_| |___/\___|_| |_|___/\___|
|_|


Welcome to pfSense 2.8.0-RELEASE...

Checking dump device /dev/gpt/swap1 for crash dumps ... no crash dumps on /dev/gpt/swap1.
...ELF ldconfig path: /lib /usr/lib /usr/lib/compat /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg /usr/local/lib/ipsec /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.36/mach/CORE
32-bit compatibility ldconfig path:
done.
>>> Setting vital flag on pfSense-upgrade...done.
External config loader 1.0 is now starting... da0p1g_vfs_done():da0p1[READ(offset=65536, length=8192)]error = 5
g_vfs_done():da0p1[READ(offset=32768, length=512)]error = 5
 da0p2 nda0p1 nda0p2 nda0p3 nda0p4
Launching the init system...Updating CPU Microcode...
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Gold G5420 CPU @ 3.80GHz (3792.02-MHz K8-class CPU)
  Origin="GenuineIntel"  Id=0x906ea  Family=0x6  Model=0x9e  Stepping=10
  Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
  Features2=0x4ffaebbf<SSE3,PCLMULQDQ,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,SDBG,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,PCID,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,MOVBE,POPCNT,TSCDLT,AESNI,XSAVE,OSXSAVE,RDRAND>
  AMD Features=0x2c100800<SYSCALL,NX,Page1GB,RDTSCP,LM>
  AMD Features2=0x121<LAHF,ABM,Prefetch>
  Structured Extended Features=0x2946683<FSGSBASE,TSCADJ,SMEP,ERMS,INVPCID,NFPUSG,MPX,RDSEED,SMAP,CLFLUSHOPT,PROCTRACE>
  Structured Extended Features3=0xbc002e00<MCUOPT,MD_CLEAR,TSXFA,IBPB,STIBP,L1DFL,ARCH_CAP,SSBD>
  XSAVE Features=0xf<XSAVEOPT,XSAVEC,XINUSE,XSAVES>
  IA32_ARCH_CAPS=0xa000c04<RSBA>
  VT-x: PAT,HLT,MTF,PAUSE,EPT,UG,VPID
  TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics
Done.
 done.
Initializing................... done.
Starting device manager (devd)...done.
Loading configuration...done.
Updating configuration....done.
Loading cryptographic accelerator drivers...done.
Checking config backups consistency...done.
Setting up extended sysctls...done.
Executing early shell commands...done.
Setting timezone...done.
Configuring loopback interface...done.
Starting syslog...done.
Setting up interfaces microcode...done.
Configuring loopback interface...done.
Configuring LAN interface...done.
Configuring WAN interface...done.
Configuring CARP settings...done.
Syncing OpenVPN settings...done.
Configuring firewall......done.
Starting PFLOG...done.
Setting up gateway monitors...done.
Setting up static routes...done.
Setting up DNSs...
Starting DNS Resolver...done.
Synchronizing user settings...done.
Configuring CRON...done.
Bootstrapping clock...done.
Starting NTP Server...done.
Starting webConfigurator...done.
Starting DHCP service...done.
Starting DHCPv6 service...done.
Configuring firewall......done.
Generating RRD graphs...done.
Starting syslog...done.
Starting CRON... done.
pfSense 2.8.0-RELEASE amd64 20250521-2312
Bootup complete
ugen1.2: <iLO Virtual Keyboard> at usbus1 (disconnected)
ukbd1: at uhub0, port 1, addr 2 (disconnected)
ukbd1: detached
ugen1.2: <iLO Virtual Keyboard> at usbus1
ukbd1 numa-domain 0 on uhub0
ukbd1: <iLO Virtual Keyboard, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.02, addr 2> on usbus1
kbd3 at ukbd1

stephenw10

You would also need to enable the comconsole in Sys > Adv > Admin Access to get the interactive console on serial.

That's interesting though. Definitely an efi console issue then.

drchanas

Clean install seems to work on Windows 2022 Gen2 VM. I will try and restore the 2.7 config and see where that goes.
Here is where it dies after 2.7 to 2.8 upgrade. Upgrade completes, reboot and this.

i386DX

@stephenw10 said in pfSense CE 2.8.0 upgrade stalls after reboot and gets stuck when loading:

That's interesting though. Definitely an efi console issue then.

I did a little bit more of testing and even FreeBSD-15.0-CURRENT-amd64 iso reboots just after reporting efi framebuffer information unless you switch efi console off and on at the bootloader prompt with

set console=comconsole
set console=efi
boot

or set it to dual console with

set console="comconsole,efi"
boot

so in the end I went with the latter and added it to loader.conf.local to make it stick across reboots.

stephenw10

You have to actually set something there? If you just boot from the loader prompt without any changes does it still fail?

i386DX

Yes, if I just run boot at the loader prompt it reboots

stephenw10

Reboots and fails I assume?

i386DX

if I don't manually set the console it just reboots continuously after displaying efi framebuffer information as reported in 1217329 and 1217156

crepsv

Hello,
same problem on DL360 G11.

Fresh Install 2.7.2 OK
Fresh install 2.8.0 or Upgrade 2.8.0 from 2.7.2 =>boot loop after this :

ZFS : RAID-Z1
UEFI Boot

i386DX

@crepsv does it start if you enter bootloader prompt (ESC during autoboot countdown) and setup console to run dual console with

set console="comconsole,efi"
boot

I have a couple of Gen11 machine but didn't have the time to check

crepsv

Freeze here :

stephenw10

Does it actually have a comconsole? Anything shown there?