Maxim Khitrov <m...@mxcrypt.com> wrote: > After all these years of trouble-free upgrades, I ran into my first > problem. I used sysupgrade to go from 6.6/amd64 to 6.7. The upgrade > process was successful, but after bsd.upgrade did its thing and > rebooted the system, the new kernel would not boot. > > It got to the "boot>" prompt, started loading the kernel, but then the > system would reboot right after showing "booting hd0a:bsd: > 129570000+2753552..." line. I tried booting bsd.sp, bsd.rd, and > bsd.booted with identical results. Was able to boot from cd67.iso. > Tried downloading the original kernel, but that didn't work either. > Re-running the upgrade didn't help.
This seems to be the efi issue. > Finally, decided to upgrade to 6.8, so did that from cd68.iso, which > fixed the problem. I also replaced bootx64.efi file on the EFI > partition after this upgrade, but I'm not actually sure if it was > different or not. But the issue was also in 6.8. It is fixed in current. > Obviously curious as to what the issue may have been, but mostly > wondering whether any upgrade steps may have been missed as a result > of never fully booting the 6.7 OS and running post-upgrade steps > there. We don't know. At this point, no developers have machines sensitive to the issue.
