SOLVED Upgrading from 8.3.1

[Chemaxmix]

Good afternoon.

I have tried to upgrade to the last version but I had a problem with GUI upgrading and I am not able to do it directly from the GUI. Now I am working with the previous version of freenas (pressing F2 during rebooting).

My second option was to do a clean installation, but where I have to choice the drive where the SO is going to be installed, there is no the USB drive option, so I can't do a clean installation in the same drive where freenas (old version) is allready installed.

Anyone knows what could be happening?

Thank you.

 

[cyberjock]

What version are you trying to upgrade to? Can you post your hardware models and specs too please.

 

[Chemaxmix]

I have now FreeNAS-8.3.1-RELEASE-p2-x86 (r12686+b770da6) and I donwloaded 9.2.1.5 x86.
Specs: HP proliant n40, AMD turion II, 1.5Mhz, 2 cores
RAM 4GB
Pendrive: 8GB Kingston

Thank you cyberjock.

 

[cyberjock]

Unfortunately I don't have much more advice. I don't own that hardware but I know many people have used it in the past.

I do know if you are using ZFS you should upgrade to 8GB of RAM and use the x64 version of FreeNAS 9.x so that you meet the minimum requirements.

 

[gpsguy]

As cyberjock said, if you're using ZFS, your first order of business is to upgrade your RAM. We've had a lot of users recently who ignored the memory requirements in 8.x, only to find out they have problems after upgrading to 9.x with insufficient memory.

I'd backup your configuration file, do a fresh install of 9.x on a new 4Gb flash drive (you can do this on another system, if it's easier), then boot off that flash drive and restore your configuration file. If you are running ZFS, don't upgrade your pool. That'll give you the flexibility to roll back to v8.x, using your old flash drive, if need be.

 

[ianW]

Hi I am also having a problem upgrading from 8.3.2 x64 to the latest x64 release. I have created a fresh install on a thumb drive and can boot the system. It can see the zpool but when I try to import it (not upgrading it) I get a kernal panic and crash. It would seem that it is the HightPoint RocketRaid card that I am using - which was working fine under 8.3.x

I would really like to move to 9.x as I am having fun and games with my jail - which is the main reason for the upgrade, but I would be very sad to loose all my photos and videos that I have stored.... :(

Are there any work arounds for this?

TIA.

Ian

 

[cyberjock]

Highpoint RocketRAID cards are a recipe for disaster for a whole slew of reasons. There's a sticky I wrote on the topic if you want to understand just a few of the major flaws with them.

 

[Chemaxmix]

Thank you all for all the answers.

After a few tries... conclutions:
Freenas 9.X don't recognize 8GB pendrive, with 16GB, I can install it without problems.
With freenas 9.X installed on a 16GB I can't restore my old configuration, during the reboot I have a "fatal trap 12*". It's very weird because on a first try, I did it, I could restore my old configuration... after this I format the pendrive and now I can't go back again... :( Auto-Import volumes does not import anything...
I tried to do a fresh install of old versions (8.3.1 / 8.3.2) in 8GB pendrive, but the problem after doing the installation is that the GUI ignore me, I even couldn't change the password (no start message to set the password neither), It stays "like thinking" without changing anything. I restart GUI, reboot freenas... and no changes. Same problem with both versions.

I am starting to be a little bit ... I feel completely Idiot... I don't reach to understand whats happening... and I am completely afraid I could loss all my files.

*Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
cpuid=1; apic id = 01
fault virtual address = 0xd0cbfb35
fault code = supervisor read, page not present
instruction pointer = 0x20:0xd0cbfb35
stack pointer = 0x28:0xeff9e8e4
frame pointer = 0x28:0xeff9e948
code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
= DPL 0, press 1, def32 1, gran 1
processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
current process = 0 (zio_write_issue)
[thread pid 0 tid 100380 ]
Stopped at 0xd0cbfb35: *** error reading from address d0cbfb35 ***
db>*

Thank you.
Saludos.

 

[Chemaxmix]

No one can help me? please...

PD: I bought as you told me 8GB of ram!! waiting for them

 

[cyberjock]

Well, when they are installed let us know. ;)

 

[Chemaxmix]

Ooook, I will let you know!

Thank you.

 

[gpsguy]

Chemamix, re-read the message (#5) above. I gave you instructions in the second paragraph.


Sent from my phone

 

[Chemaxmix]

Gpsguy, Yes I saw... and I tried to do it, with 8.X versions but... no way to set the password in the GUI (even restoring GUI settings in 7th option of the console menu), so I couldn't import old configuration neither do anything else...

Explained in (#8). Maybe it's not a very good explanation (sorry for my english). I tried both instructions, with differents problems in each case...

 

[Chemaxmix]

Hi everyone....

You were right! Adding more ram and 73Eur later..., problem solved!!!!

Thank you all!!! :)

 

[cyberjock]

Chock another one for "more RAM". ;)

Glad its working for you.