Upgrading to 2.0RC1 from 1.2.3
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Ive tried upgrading two Virtual machine (PFsense 1.2.3) firewalls twice with no luck I keep getting kernel panics during the upgrade after its updated and reboots. I used pfSense-Full-Update-2.0-RC1-i386-20110226-1429.tgz for the update.
Any Idea's?
Thanks, -
That's a known issue with vmware-tools at the moment:
http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/1156
http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/1251 -
Thanks for the information. That fixed the upgrading within vmware workstation. I tried upgrading a firewall within our large ESX environment and the upgrade goes through then the firewall reboots and then just after it starts loading the 2.0 firewall it kernel panics! I verified that the vmtools were not installed before i did the update. I did this two different times with two different firewalls and had the same outcome. I manage about 25 pfsense firewalls all running 1.2.3 and would like to upgrade them but Now it looks like that may not be such an easy task. :-
Any Idea's? -
Double check /boot/loader.conf and /boot/loader.conf.local - make sure no vmware kernel modules are being loaded there.
Double check /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ and make sure no vmware startup scripts are there.
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That did it! I removed the two scripts from /usr/local/etc/rc.d and rebooted then ran the upgrade and it upgraded with no issues.
Do you happen to know if its possible to back up a version 1.2.3 config and install it in a 2.0 firewall? Or will this not work?
Thanks,
Pat -
You can restore a full 1.2.3 config onto 2.0, sure.
