Upgrade successful: Supermicro X11SBA-LN4F

[bringha]

Hello all,

after observing the discussion a while I made today my upgrade from 16.7.14_2 to 17.1.2

Worked absolutely seamless, three reboots, overall upgrade time <6 minutes

Hardware: Supermicro X11SBA-LN4F
                Intel NX 3700 FPGA CPU
                4G RAM
                20G SATA 3G SSD Super Dome
                4 Gb NICS Intel Pro

There is one very irritating thing:console

My old installation uses UEFI. At the last reboot, the last output on the console is:

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FreeeBSD/and64 EFI loader, revision 1.1
(root@sennsey64, Mon, Feb20, 13:09:03 CET 2017)
Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
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Which means that there is no boot prompt coming up where I could put the suggested changes in console configuration as boot parameter.

Fortunately, the system comes up in the background normally and I could make the console setting changes via GUI. However, I would suggest to enable VGA console by default also for UEFI systems.

Furthermore, the upgrade installation also overwrites some config files, e.g. /etc/ttys which means in my case that if something goes wrong, there is no login prompt at the console (which I activate temporarily when doing installation work).

Aside from that - great work! Thanks to the OPNsense team!!

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[franco]

Hi bringha,

We changed nothing with the console settings as a choice, but the behaviour shifted from FreeBSD 10.3 to 11.0 and the old settings are not the old settings anymore. Especially UEFI console boot stopped working as it was possibly switched over from SC to VC.

Your settings under System: Settings: Administration should likely be:

Primary: EFI
VT driver: checked

We will switch to VT by default with renewed images for 17.1 if testing goes fine, which should avoid this in the future. Old systems, however, will always need to be adjusted manually. There is no "one size fits all" setting here as far as feedback has shown.

/etc/ttys is rewritten on boot to prevent corruption according to the current config settings, or if this fails reverts to a standard FreeBSD setup.


Cheers,
Franco

[bringha]

Hello,

I still have problems to get the messages from the KERNEL during boot - only the boot menu and the messages of the initial boot phases are shown

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Apr 19 13:36:50 OPNsense kernel: Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1600044200 Hz quality 1000
Apr 19 13:36:50 OPNsense kernel: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/gpt/rootfs [rw,noatime]...
Apr 19 13:36:50 OPNsense kernel: uhub0: 13 ports with 13 removable, self powered
Apr 19 13:36:50 OPNsense kernel: ugen0.2: <vendor 0x046a> at usbus0
Apr 19 13:36:50 OPNsense kernel: ukbd0: <vendor 0x046a product 0x0023, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.32, addr 1> on usbus0
Apr 19 13:36:50 OPNsense kernel: kbd2 at ukbd0
Apr 19 13:36:50 OPNsense kernel: ugen0.3: <vendor 0x05e3> at usbus0
Apr 19 13:36:50 OPNsense kernel: uhub1: <vendor 0x05e3 USB2.0 Hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/32.98, addr 2> on usbus0
Apr 19 13:36:50 OPNsense kernel: uhub1: MTT enabled
Apr 19 13:36:50 OPNsense kernel: uhub1: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
Apr 19 13:36:50 OPNsense kernel: ugen0.4: <vendor 0x05e3> at usbus0
Apr 19 13:36:50 OPNsense kernel: uhub2: <vendor 0x05e3 USB2.0 Hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/32.98, addr 3> on usbus0
Apr 19 13:36:50 OPNsense kernel: uhub2: MTT enabled
Apr 19 13:36:50 OPNsense kernel: uhub2: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
Apr 19 13:36:50 OPNsense kernel: ugen0.5: <vendor 0x0557> at usbus0
Apr 19 13:36:50 OPNsense kernel: uhub3: <vendor 0x0557 product 0x7000, class 9/0, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 4> on usbus0
Apr 19 13:36:50 OPNsense kernel: uhub3: 4 ports with 3 removable, self powered
Apr 19 13:36:50 OPNsense kernel: ugen0.6: <vendor 0x0557> at usbus0
Apr 19 13:36:50 OPNsense kernel: ukbd1: <vendor 0x0557 product 0x2419, class 0/0, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 5> on usbus0
Apr 19 13:36:50 OPNsense kernel: kbd3 at ukbd1
Apr 19 13:36:50 OPNsense kernel: igb0: link state changed to UP
Apr 19 13:36:50 OPNsense kernel: igb1: link state changed to UP
Apr 19 13:36:50 OPNsense kernel: igb2: link state changed to UP
Apr 19 13:36:50 OPNsense kernel: igb3: link state changed to UP

Then there is a long pause and the next thing is the login prompt ....

Primary console is EFI...

any idea?

Looking forward to your reply

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[franco]

Where are you copying this kernel output from, a serial console maybe?


Cheers,
Franco

[bringha]

Hi Franco,

Its logically the EFI console.

this was copied from a 'virtual' VGA console as being provided by the IPMI BMC controller of a super micro board. Its exactly a copy from the physical screen as being connected to the physical console (made my life easier when copying it ...) 

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[abel408]

I am also having this issue! I also have a supermicro board. I get the same exact output as bringha on my monitor+keyboard directly connected to the opnsense box. The only difference is that I never get a login prompt! Bringha, did you change any bios settings to get the login prompt?

[bringha]

Hi abel408

Saw that issue is already solved as described in your thread answer in 16.7?!

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[abel408]

Thanks for the response. Yes, I was able to fix this. Strange that the upgrade to 17.1 switched my console to serial...