Another 26.7 "Upgrade Failed" Thread.

[Kevin G.]

New to the forums, I did check many other previous posts. Have been searching for over a week. Attempted the upgrade last weekend, trying to revisit this weekend...

From My Reddit Post:

Baremetal, i5/3rd Gen, 16GB Ram. ZFS

I have been sweating the update for weeks. Saw several posts and prepared myself the best I could. Attempted the upgrade tonight and lost all connectivity. Build: ZFS (snapshot before upgrade), never had microcode plugin installed, Legacy ISC, simple rules migrated over, backed up Config. Began the upgrade.

Got stuck in a "rebooting now" and returning to the Lobby/Dashboard loop, assumed the update failed. Started to disconnect to add my ISP/backup router back in to troubleshoot, decided to manually reboot the Opnsense box, patiently waited, and heard the boot chime. Logged in from my daily driver desktop, and saw the new dashboard with 26.7.1. Loaded rules via the migration tool, verified they were there, deleted "Legacy Rules" via the tool. Success! ...Nope, no devices on my network receiving any connection. I cannot find the issue, but the Live logs show no traffic being let in whatsoever (all blocked).

I have no clue how to install the bootloader to the secondary drive. Reading tons on it, but just don't understand any of it.

Switched to my backup/ISP provided router, for now...hope to dive in some more tomorrow.

Any insights would be great.

Feels like this is simply a rules issue, but don't know where to begin.

If I need a fresh install, that isn't a big deal, I just have a few questions.
Will I still be able to migrate my old rules?
Are there "new" default rules with a fresh install?
Will my old 26.1 config files work with a fresh install of 26.7 (Legacy ISC and Legacy Rules)? I hope to migrate to dnsmasq, but would prefer to be running first.