Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 10:26:01 -0400 From: Kurt Lidl <lidl@pix.net> To: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10.1-BETA3 - zfs bootblocks broken Message-ID: <542C0EF9.1030801@pix.net> In-Reply-To: <54299195.2010900@pix.net> References: <54299195.2010900@pix.net>
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On 9/29/14 1:06 PM, Kurt Lidl wrote: > I got the FreeBSD 10.1-BETA3 distribution ISO and tried > two things this morning. > > 1) Following the system prompts, it will successfully > create and install into UFS filesystems. > > 2) Following a procedure that I've used many times in > the past to install the sparc64 onto ZFS-only media, > it fails to boot. > > The "zfsloader" program is failing: > > Executing last command: boot disk0 > Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@8/disk@0,0 File and args: > > >> FreeBSD/sparc64 ZFS boot block > Boot path: /pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@8/disk@0,0:a > Consoles: Open Firmware console > Memory Address not Aligned > > I reported this problem with the 10.1-BETA2 iso as well. > > I spent some time this last weekend tracking down the cause of > this failure, using the 10.1-BETA2 code. I've narrowed the > failure down to this call, in .../sys/boot/zfsimpl.c (line 1155): > > error = zio_decompress_data(cpfunc, pbuf, > BP_GET_PSIZE(bp), buf, BP_GET_LSIZE(bp)); > > I don't know when this was broken. I have an ISO image I created > from r264194 that works fine. (Built back on 06-Apr-2014.) > > Thanks for any help. > > -Kurt For those of you following this saga, I've tracked down the root problem and produced a patch that allows zfsloader to function on sparc64 again. Report and patch are here: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=194071 -Kurt
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