Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 08:14:37 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Kenneth Schmidt <kvs@binarysolutions.dk> Subject: Re: 8.0-RC2's /boot/loader doesn't like booting from ZFS? Message-ID: <200911040814.37997.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <90FB6778-7853-420E-8931-9EE78E95E8F1@binarysolutions.dk> References: <90FB6778-7853-420E-8931-9EE78E95E8F1@binarysolutions.dk>
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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 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. Usually the 'Guessed BIOS device' stuff is caused by the loader re-executing itself, perhaps due to a stack overflow. -- John Baldwin
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