Eugene Grosbein
2019-Dec-11 03:16 UTC
Boot loader stuck after first stage upgrading 11.2 to 12.0-RC2
10.12.2019 23:08, Mark Martinec ?????:> 2019-12-10 16:35, Marc Branchaud wrote: > >> On 2019-12-10 9:18 a.m., Mark Martinec wrote: >>> Commenting on a thread from 2018-12 and from 2019-09-20, with my solution >>> to the boot problem at the end, in case anyone is still interested. >> >> Thank you very much for this. A couple of questions: >> >> (1) Why do you say "raw devices for historical reasons"? Glancing >> through the zpool man page and the Handbook, I see nothing >> recommending or requiring GPT partitions. > > Apparently using raw devices for zpool is now discouraged, > although I don't think it has ever become officially unsupported.Loader bugs do not mean that "using raw devices for zpool is now discouraged".
Marc Branchaud
2019-Dec-13 20:58 UTC
Boot loader stuck after first stage upgrading 11.2 to 12.0-RC2
On 2019-12-10 10:16 p.m., Eugene Grosbein wrote:> 10.12.2019 23:08, Mark Martinec ?????: >> 2019-12-10 16:35, Marc Branchaud wrote: >> >>> On 2019-12-10 9:18 a.m., Mark Martinec wrote: >>>> Commenting on a thread from 2018-12 and from 2019-09-20, with my solution >>>> to the boot problem at the end, in case anyone is still interested. >>> >>> Thank you very much for this. A couple of questions: >>> >>> (1) Why do you say "raw devices for historical reasons"? Glancing >>> through the zpool man page and the Handbook, I see nothing >>> recommending or requiring GPT partitions. >> >> Apparently using raw devices for zpool is now discouraged, >> although I don't think it has ever become officially unsupported. > > Loader bugs do not mean that "using raw devices for zpool is now discouraged".Glad to hear that! Should there be a PR for this issue? (A quick Bugzilla search for "zpool gpt boot" found nothing...) M.