Re: Update to 14.3 does not boot anymore

From: Paul Macdonald <paul_at_ifdnrg.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 13:08:40 UTC
On 10/06/2025 09:47, Arnold Greyling wrote:
>
>> On 10 Jun 2025, at 10:14, Matthias Fechner <mfechner@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> I tried to upgrade today one of my servers from 14.2 to 14.3 using 
>> freebsd-update.
>> I just fetch the update, installed new kernel and rebooted:
>> freebsd-update upgrade -r 14.3-RELEASE
>> freebsd-update install
>> reboot
>>
>> Now I see on the screen:
>> (ada1:ahcich1:0:0:0): READ_FPDMA_QUEUED. ACB: 60 e0 48 04 04 40 00 00 
>> 00 00 00 00
>> (ada1:ahcich1:0:0:0): CAM status: Auto-Sense Retrieval Failed
>> (ada1:ahcich1:0:0:0): Error 5, Unretryable error
>>
>> this is repeated and server refused to boot.
>> Maybe the disc is broken, but it worked fine till before the reboot 
>> into the new kernel, so this can also be related to the upgrade.
>
> If you are using ZFS with the standard layout from the installer 
> freebsd-update should have created a boot environment for 14.2 when 
> you started the upgrade.
> When you boot, select the option “Select boot environment …” from the 
> boot menu, and then select the 14.2 environment
> You will at least see if it is hardware or if it is caused by the upgrade.
> If you don’t even get the boot menu it is probably hardware.
>
> Regards
> Arnold Greyling


FWIW  an upgrade i just performed worked fine

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