Another upgrade question

[TotalHavoc]

I'm fairly new to Opnsense, 20.1 was my first version. When I tried to upgrade to 20.7 on my AMD Athlon 5350 I received an error and the system would not work. Even a clean install of 20.7 would not boot properly so I installed 20.1 again and restored a backup config.

My question is, how does the upgrade from 20.1 work now that 20.7.2 is out? If I unlock the 20.7 upgrade does it go straight to 20.7.2 from 20.1.9, or will it just try to load 20.7 first then 20.7.2?

Thanks
Havoc

[TotalHavoc]

disappointed that no one know or cares

[l0stnyc]

You actually have to go through all the versions so 20.7.1 -> 20.7.2 -> 20.7.3.  20.7 has generally been buggy for me compared to previous upgrades which went much smoother.  I ended up having to do a clean install of 20.7, then restored the backup and went to 20.7.2, and this week 20.7.3.  I'm still having issues with suricata and the rules not updating on cron, but that's a different story.

[TotalHavoc]

Thank you for the response. Hopefully when all the bugs are worked out a new iso will be released. I absolutely can not load 20.7 as it will not even boot on my box.

[littlepepper]

Opnsense is tied closely to FreeBSD. If you can boot from FreeBSD 12.1 on your computer, you can upgrade to Opnsense via this script
https://github.com/opnsense/update/