Maxim Khitrov 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:
> 12957+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.
