System not booting after upgrade 12.3 -> 13.0

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Ozric

I did an upgrade from 12.3-RELEASE to 13.0-RELEASE on a system and now it will not boot. This is what it shows on boot:

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It will hang there. It is exactly the same in Single user mode. Could it be the joy module that is causing it to not boot, and if so how do I remove that from loader.conf?
In the loader prompt I tried running unload and then boot but that gave the same output.
 
It's booting, you just don't see anything because the console has been switched to the serial port (check option 5. Cons; it's been set to serial).

And why did you upgrade to 13.0? That version is end-of-life, you should have upgraded directly to 13.1 (there's no need to install any of the 'intermediate' versions).

Just hit the power button (short press), that should gracefully shutdown the machine. Then when booting double check the menu, make sure Cons: is set to 'video'. Finish the upgrade process you already started. Make sure you do it all, freebsd-update install should be run a total of three times, then also upgrade all your installed ports/packages. Work your way through the whole upgrade process. Then start another upgrade from 13.0 to 13.1.

On second thought, how far did you get with the upgrade? Was this right after the first freebsd-update install and the first reboot? Then only the kernel has been updated, that's easy to rollback. You're probably better off restoring the 12.3 kernel and restart the upgrade process from scratch, only this time upgrade to 13.1 instead of 13.0.
 
SirDice said:
It's booting, you just don't see anything because the console has been switched to the serial port (check option 5. Cons; it's been set to serial).

And why did you upgrade to 13.0? That version is end-of-life, you should have upgraded directly to 13.1 (there's no need to install any of the 'intermediate' versions).

Just hit the power button (short press), that should gracefully shutdown the machine. Then when booting double check the menu, make sure Cons: is set to 'video'. Finish the upgrade process you already started. Make sure you do it all, freebsd-update install should be run a total of three times, then also upgrade all your installed ports/packages. Work your way through the whole upgrade process. Then start another upgrade from 13.0 to 13.1.
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I just did it off the top of my head and I did not remember that 13.1 was the latest version.

I changed to Cons: Video in the boot menu but it still stalls with the same printout on screen. As you said it may very well be booting, because the caps/scroll/num lock LEDs are still responsive, so the system hasn't hanged.
 
Was this after the first reboot? Right after the first freebsd-update install?

In that same menu, selecting kernel.old should boot your 'old' 12.3 kernel.
 
Try changing option 6; to kernel.old and set 5 Cons; to video again. Hopefully that will boot your old system again. It's probably best to start the upgrade process from scratch again. You only have a new kernel now, so that's easy to back out.
 
The addr, size of framebuffer is weird though, I'd expect proper numbers there. The "joy" not found - that's some sort of module you're trying to load ?
 
SirDice said:
Try changing option 6; to kernel.old and set 5 Cons; to video again. Hopefully that will boot your old system again. It's probably best to start the upgrade process from scratch again. You only have a new kernel now, so that's easy to back out.
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Unfortunately it stalls in the same way (with the difference that the joy module seems to load):
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try to boot 13.1 from installation media
copy 13.1 loader.efi over your hdd efi partition loader.efi and bootx64.efi (make backups of present files)
 
covacat said:
copy 13.1 loader.efi over your hdd efi partition loader.efi and bootx64.efi (make backups of present files)
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I agree this is a good way to go. But doesn't freebsd-update do this automatically? I personally don't use it so I'm wondering if this step was not done by the upgrade.
 
SirDice said:
No. freebsd-update(8) doesn't touch any of the boot loaders, you always have to update those yourself.
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Good to know. And then doing so is really a good idea now.

I think OP's current loader has problem setting up frame buffer and hence OP is experiencing those issues. It would be worth checking out if SSH is accessible (or at least ping) to see if system is actually frozen or if there's no vidconsole only.
 
I have a machine here showing exactly that when I try to boot in UEFI mode (and yes, it's really frozen). But then, this didn't work on 12 either. Nevertheless, it might be something to try: Boot in CSM mode.
 
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