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Date:      Thu, 19 Sep 2019 22:15:38 +0300
From:      Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
To:        Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Lockdown adaX numbers to allow booting ?
Message-ID:  <87545E27-F860-416C-8A94-B3647C476AB4@me.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190919184803.GI2863@home.opsec.eu>
References:  <20190919140219.GE2863@home.opsec.eu> <7E0AE025-596C-457E-BC40-41217857A3CD@me.com> <20190919155713.GG2863@home.opsec.eu> <F38EC62B-D0E8-44CA-A1D7-C8ECEAFD80F4@me.com> <20190919184803.GI2863@home.opsec.eu>

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> On 19 Sep 2019, at 21:48, Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu> wrote:
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> Hi!
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>>>> Also the question is, what you mean with ???system looses track????
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>>> I interpret the hang during boot as 'it looses track'. So I guess
>>> it tries to read the kernel from the wrong drives.
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>> no, loader does probe disks to see which devices make up the pool and =
hung system is not about reading the kernel from wrong place.
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>> I bet it is BIOS system?
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> If you mean: no UEFI boot ? Yes, it boots via BIOS, not UEFI.
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>> Since the raidz seems to be created partitionless, what version
>> of freebsd are you using?
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> FreeBSD 12.0p10, amd64.
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>> BIOS up to date?
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> The board is an X10SRi-F. dmidecode reports BIOS 3.1, supermicro
> has 3.1c, but the release notes do not mention things like that
> (or at least I don't understand them that way).
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> https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/X10SRi-F
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>> can you test pool visibility in loader with latest current
>> usb/cd start - like press esc in menu and check lsdev -v
>> (assuming you get to menu) ? the same with uefi?
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> I will test this when I'm at the facility. Will take some time.
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Those data disks are 10TB 512e, I can not recall if loader in 12.0p10 =
does ignore partitionless disks in pools or not, if the bios is buggy =
about large disks, that does explain the hung system=E2=80=A6 in that =
case, the loader in current should be fine.

rgds,
toomas




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