From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 20 20:43:04 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F5752FE for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:43:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@johnea.net) Received: from mail.johnea.net (johnea.net [70.167.123.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B5128FC12 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:43:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.100.239] (vhost.johnea.net [192.168.100.239]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.johnea.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 691FA73F188B for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:35:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50ABE97B.5030408@johnea.net> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:34:42 -0800 From: freebsd@johnea.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120717 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: boot problem after freebsd-update from 9.1-RC2 to 9.1-RC3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:43:04 -0000 Hello, I recently installed a 9.1-RC2 system using gmirror with MBR, and swap in first bsdlabel. orsbackup# gpart show => 63 3907029104 mirror/gm0 MBR (1.8T) 63 63 - free - (31k) 126 3907028979 1 freebsd [active] (1.8T) 3907029105 62 - free - (31k) => 0 3907028979 mirror/gm0s1 BSD (1.8T) 0 2 - free - (1.0k) 2 16777216 1 freebsd-swap (8.0G) 16777218 3890251760 2 freebsd-ufs (1.8T) 3907028978 1 - free - (512B) The drive was setup with the following commands: orsbackup# gpart create -s MBR mirror/gm0 mirror/gm0 created orsbackup# gpart add -t freebsd -a 4k mirror/gm0 # ignored "mirror/gm0s1 added, but partition is not aligned on 4096 bytes" # create the bsdlabel partitions in slice 1 (s1) orsbackup# gpart create -s BSD mirror/gm0s1 orsbackup# gpart add -t freebsd-swap -a 4k -s 8g mirror/gm0s1 orsbackup# gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 4k mirror/gm0s1 # put bootcode on the MBR and mark the first slice active orsbackup# gpart bootcode -b /boot/mbr mirror/gm0 orsbackup# gpart set -a active -i 1 mirror/gm0 # put bootcode on the bsdlabel orsbackup# gpart bootcode -b /boot/boot mirror/gm0s1 The system rebooted several times without issue. This system is a testbed for 9.1 and is not yet deployed as a production server. I thought I'd update to 9.1-RC3, so I ran: freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RC3 freebsd-update install reboot The system won't boot and complains about: "Not UFS" "No ada0" "No boot" Before I charge ahead with reissuing the gpart bootcode commands I thought I'd: a) make others aware there may be issues in freebsd-update with the 9.1 release candidates b) ask about the best way to resolve this bootloader issue. Thanks you for any pointers in resolving this bootloader issue! johnea