Update or Fresh install of 25.07 causes HP ProLiant DL20 Gen9 to Reboot after PFSense Menu
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Update or Fresh install of Version 25.07 causes HP ProLiant DL20 Gen9 to reboot after the PFSense Menu, with no logs, just a reboot. The server has no issues and is running the latest available BIOS. All previous versions work perfectly.
Thoughts?
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@malindsay without any logs or screenshots, it will take someone with a cristal ball :)
Can you either recoard the boot or connect to a console that the last 10 or 20 lines are visible, before the reboot?
Edit: similar to https://forum.netgate.com/topic/197818/problems-installing-2-8/4 ?
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@patient0 I tried to get a photo before the reboot, but it happens too quickly. Then the Black screen and the HP BIOS screen
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Can you get a video so we have at least some idea of where this is happening?
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@stephenw10 I will try again soon, had to reload the server with the previous version to get the internet working again
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I had same thing last week with Proliant DL360 G10 and Proliant DL360 G9. Update caused a boot loop. At PFSense menu I pressed space bar and after that 6 and choose older bios. After that fw boot was succesfull and I could restore older version. I didn't see the cause either, because boot was right after menu.
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I mean kernel, not bios.
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@NG Thank you very much. I will try again later this week. When the kernel is running the older version, I assume the unit is running version 24.11 and not 25.07. It seems to be an HP server issue with the new version of PFSense
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@malindsay After boot to older kernel the system went up normaly, but the OpenVPN did not work, so I restored 24.11 version from boot environments menu.
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A video of where the reboot is happening would still be useful here.
Also you might try re-upgrading to 25.07.1 since it has a bootloader fix.
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@NG Nice, I also rolled back to 24.11, waiting for a kernel fix
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@stephenw10, thanks, will try the new release. Sorry, I had to reinstall the system to get the system working, and forgot to create a video of the issue
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I have multiple HP servers, some are PFsense, and some are PFsense+ and I am running into the same issue. For example on PFsense if I am on 2.7.2, when I try and update to 2,8 it breaks the server so it's no longer bootable.
So I loaded an older PFsense I had on an HPE DL360 G9, to see what happened with a fresh system. The update to 2.8 broke as expected, and above you can see what happens. Then the server just resets and starts the boot process again. Every HP I own has this issue it seems, I have tired it on G10's as well, with no luck.
Any ideas?
Posted here as it seems like this is a related thread..
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@WB3FFV if think in the past when booting froze at that point it was an issue with console settings.
Can you compare the boot variables (interrupt at the boot menu by pressing 3, then
show) from 2.7.2 and 2.8.0?Are you booting using UEFI or legacy BIOS?
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Are you able to test 25.07.1 on an affected system?
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@WB3FFV i was informed 25.07.01 will fix the issue, have you tried this version
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How do I get a copy of 25.07.01 to load?
I am happy to image and install it if I can get it in an iso of some kind.
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@WB3FFV should be available in firmware updates
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@malindsay I just did a load and update today, and I don't believe I saw the .01, guess I will have to load and try again..
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Yup you should see it available as an update or in the net installer.
