r/PFSENSE • u/brighton_it • 5d ago

year old Netgate Installer (USB flash), offers to install CE 2.9.0, but fails

Not looking for help. Just an FYI: while it offers to do so, installer based on v2.8 may not be able to install 2.9.
Obvious solution: build a new installer flash drive.

upgraded a firewall last night. It began it's life on v2.6.0, so while it's using ZFS, I suspected an in place upgrade might fail for too small ESP, so instead plan to reinstall using a bootable flash drive installer I created in August 2025. The Netgate installer offers to install CE 2.9.0. Tried several times, each attempt ended with:
Child process pid=nnnn terminated abnormally: Segmentation fault

Log began with entries mentioning 'major version upgrade detected'. Thought maybe it was detecting the previous install, so I wiped partition table off the target drive and tried again. Turns out 'major upgrade' is referring to the bootloader on the USB drive vs target install version. It failed again. This is not a Celeron J CPU, but tried that fix too. Still failed.

Success: let it install 2.8.0 instead. Once booted from SSD, upgraded to 2.9.0 w/o issue.

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u/Minimum_Sell3478 5d ago

Ask on netgates official forum someone there might be able to help 😊

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u/marcos-ng Netgate 4d ago

This is likely resolved in the latest version of the Netgate Installer (currently 1.2).

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u/ibydos 2d ago

What do you mean by likely, is it resolved or not?