Kenneth Schmidt
2009-Nov-03 17:15 UTC
8.0-RC2's /boot/loader doesn't like booting from ZFS?
Hello. Two separate machines fail when starting loader(8) after upgrading from 8.0-RC1 to -RC2. Both have been installed by following http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot - one is a VMware machine with just one disk, the other a Sun Fire X2200 server with 2 disks in a ZFS mirror. They both booted fine with -RC1, but with -RC2 the last messages are: Can't work out which disk we are booting from. Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes, defaulting to disk0: ficl-s not found Assertion failed: (FALSE), function ficlCompileSoftCore, file softcore.c, line 428. Reverting to the -RC1 /boot/loader fixes. -- Best Regards Kenneth Vestergaard Schmidt
On Tuesday 03 November 2009 11:54:12 am Kenneth Schmidt wrote:> Hello. > > Two separate machines fail when starting loader(8) after upgrading > from 8.0-RC1 to -RC2. Both have been installed by followinghttp://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot> - one is a VMware machine with just one disk, the other a Sun Fire > X2200 server with 2 disks in a ZFS mirror. > > They both booted fine with -RC1, but with -RC2 the last messages are: > > Can't work out which disk we are booting from. > Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes, defaulting to > disk0: > ficl-s not found > Assertion failed: (FALSE), function ficlCompileSoftCore, file > softcore.c, line 428. > > Reverting to the -RC1 /boot/loader fixes.Usually the 'Guessed BIOS device' stuff is caused by the loader re-executing itself, perhaps due to a stack overflow. -- John Baldwin