Default Boot Environment wrong

[zxurian]

I have OPNSense installed onto a micro PC. Been using it for years without issue. Previously, whenever I had a power outage, OPNSense would come back on by itself with no issues.

I had a power outage last week, and this time, it didn't come back up automatically. It was stuck at the following screen



Through some troubleshooting, I discovered that the default Boot Environment has somehow changed to FreeBSD. If I stopped the boot up process, and changed the Boot Environment from FreeBSD to OPNSense (`, then it continued to boot up fine.

How can I restore the default environment to what it should be.

[Patrick M. Hausen]

You can manage your boot environments from the UI: System > Snapshots.

You can delete the old one if you do not need it any more and rename the active one to something like e.g. "24.7".

"default" is just a name, no special meaning. It's the BE of every fresh FreeBSD or OPNsense installation.

[zxurian]

thanks for the pointer. First time I've been to the snapshots. Section. I'm going to guess that the three snapshots I see there were created by system when doing an upgrade on OPNSense.

In terms of usage, how would I make one the default bootable one?

[Patrick M. Hausen]

By clicking on the checkmark in the commands section to the right meaning "activate". If you hover your mouse cursor over it it will probably display something like that.

In the column labeled "Active" "N" means "now" and "R" means "next reboot".

[zxurian]

got it. thanks.