Upgrading HD in FreePBX 60 Appliance

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I’m attempting to upgrade the SSD in a FreePBX 60 appliance and I’m having a bit of trouble.

The latest FreePBX distro (SNG7-PBX-64bit-1805-1) kernel panics upon bootup. It crashes on the snd_hdmi_lpe_audio module. It looks like to be related known bug with CentOS so I tried an older distribution.

I was able to install and bootup SNG7-PBX-64bit-1712-2 without a kernel panic.

However, now the network ports don’t function.

I didn’t think upgrading the SSD would be such a headache. Anyone else experience issues like this?

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Hello,

You can try following way for fixing Boot kernel panic. You can fix it.
you can Install or Upgrade the pbx package to 1805 or higher --> sangoma-pbx-1805-3.sng7.noarch
After install first action --> yum update -y && yum update sangoma-pbx

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Thanks, I’ll try that once I can get past no working network ports. I tried cloning the 120gb SSD that came with the FreePBX and restored that to a 500gb SSD and that also results in no functioning network ports.

am I running into a hardware limitation with the size of the new SSD?

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I think you have wrong or corrupt iso image. Before start check md5 image file.
FreePBX don’t have any limitation on SSD or SATA drive.

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md5sum matches, it shouldn’t be corrupt. I experience the same behavior with cloning the orignal 120gb SSD and restoring it on a 500gb SSD or with a new install onto the 500gb SSD.

I am wondering if it’s a limitation of the FreePBX 60 hardware, and not FreePBX as a distro itself.

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No any Hardware limitation. After change to SSD your Appliance will be work fast then before.

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Thanks for the confirmation. I tried the other network ports and port 1 works. Port 0 and 3 do not work with the 500gb SSD plugged in. Bizarre! Power related? I won’t question it… I’ll just use port 1.

Thanks for your time and attention!