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.
sashk
2019-Dec-14 01:29 UTC
Boot loader stuck after first stage upgrading 11.2 to 12.0-RC2
I hit this issue about year ago and Toomas Soome was able to figure out what was causing this and fixed in the https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=342151 I believe this got into 12.1. -Aleks 13.12.2019, 15:59, "Marc Branchaud" <marcnarc at gmail.com>:> 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable at freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"