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Date:      Mon, 21 Oct 2013 18:41:10 +0000
From:      "Teske, Devin" <Devin.Teske@fisglobal.com>
To:        Johan Broman <johan@bridgenet.se>
Cc:        Devin Teske <dteske@freebsd.org>, "Teske, Devin" <Devin.Teske@fisglobal.com>, "<freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Current" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [CFT] Patch to bsdinstall to support root-on-ZFS and GELI
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On Oct 21, 2013, at 9:04 AM, Teske, Devin wrote:

>=20
> On Oct 21, 2013, at 8:50 AM, Allan Jude wrote:
>=20
>> On 2013-10-21 11:45, Johan Broman wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>=20
>>> Sorry for the delayed answer. I've patched zfsboot and rebuilt the
>>> release. I now get an error message that ada2 can't be used, which is
>>> correct. Good stuff! :)
>>>=20
>>> ( I've recreated the test environment using a KVM guest with four SATA
>>> drives instead of the server I was using. I makes it easier to test
>>> stuff. )
>>>=20
>>> Here's the screenshot:
>>>=20
>>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=3Dhttp://212.181.212.146/bsd=
install/Screenshot_2013-10-21.png&k=3D%2FbkpAUdJWZuiTILCq%2FFnQg%3D%3D%0A&r=
=3DMrjs6vR4%2Faj2Ns9%2FssHJjg%3D%3D%0A&m=3DB6jLX5vSxIfvyks3HH55lYWtfhRBpGZ3=
nVA65M%2FgmXM%3D%0A&s=3Df6fc4ec7c9d8b9486e897156dac5af7c3f64e3fae746dcf6c66=
ad91564a8ce99
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>> Maybe one should be unable to select drives that are part of a graid
>>> in the first place? Or is that out-of-scope for bsdinstall at this
>>> point? (As I guess that requires too many changes/new lines)
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>> Cheers
>>> Johan
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>> On 19/10/13 22:20, Teske, Devin wrote:
>>>>=20
>>>> On Oct 19, 2013, at 10:07 AM, Johan Broman wrote:
>>>>=20
>>>>> I recreated the graid mirror on ada2 and ada3 and reran the
>>>>> installation. I'm unable to scroll the msgbox using PgDn or arrow
>>>>> keys. There is no indication that the action failed and I'm returned
>>>>> to the ZFS setup screen if I hit OK.
>>>>>=20
>>>>> I have screen shots (taken with my phone) of the msgbox and "ps
>>>>> auxwww" output. Let me know what kind of debug info you would like.
>>>>> I've put the screen shots here:
>>>>>=20
>>>>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=3Dhttp://212.181.212.146/b=
sdinstall&k=3D%2FbkpAUdJWZuiTILCq%2FFnQg%3D%3D%0A&r=3DMrjs6vR4%2Faj2Ns9%2Fs=
sHJjg%3D%3D%0A&m=3DB6jLX5vSxIfvyks3HH55lYWtfhRBpGZ3nVA65M%2FgmXM%3D%0A&s=3D=
6322000e13ed155bda748698c4a0d54c9de7c29f5566affe202d7c5a29917cd1
>>>>=20
>>>> I've added a patch to fix debugging in the zfsboot script...
>>>>=20
>>>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=3Dhttp://druidbsd.cvs.sf.ne=
t/viewvc/druidbsd/bsdinstall_zfs/&k=3D%2FbkpAUdJWZuiTILCq%2FFnQg%3D%3D%0A&r=
=3DMrjs6vR4%2Faj2Ns9%2FssHJjg%3D%3D%0A&m=3DB6jLX5vSxIfvyks3HH55lYWtfhRBpGZ3=
nVA65M%2FgmXM%3D%0A&s=3D1dc96a8b5450d27fe8210b361c9ed736ccd448f78df6aabe170=
bb80e31bca6d9
>>>>=20
>>>> Feedback welcome.
>>>>=20
>>>> Johan,...
>>>>=20
>>>> Can you see if the patch sheds some better light as to what's failing?
>>>>=20
>>>> The patch won't fix the problem, but it should give us an accurate err=
or
>>>> message so that we can learn what precisely is returning an error
>>>> status.
>>>>=20
>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>=20
>> I do notice that Devin's manually prefixing the error message with the
>> tool name, is partially redundancy when the tool does it it self, but we
>> can't always be sure it will do that.
>>=20
>=20
> The next patchset will fix that.
>=20

And it's ready now.

Tarball:
http://druidbsd.cvs.sf.net/viewvc/druidbsd/bsdinstall_zfs/?view=3Dtar

This patch takes debugging a leap beyond where it is now

NOTE: Only for the zfsboot script -- there is another separate effort to
improve the debugging in bsdinstall in-general; those patches are here:
http://druidbsd.cvs.sf.net/viewvc/druidbsd/bsdinstall_debug/?view=3Dtar
--=20
Devin

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