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Date:      Wed, 08 Feb 2017 14:35:43 +0200
From:      Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
To:        FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gptzfsboot trouble
Message-ID:  <CB018A6C-75F9-476F-A656-DC598DF00685@me.com>
In-Reply-To: <op.yvccuojgkndu52@53556c9c.cm-6-6b.dynamic.ziggo.nl>
References:  <000d01d2815c$74f1be60$5ed53b20$@btinternet.com> <op.yvccuojgkndu52@53556c9c.cm-6-6b.dynamic.ziggo.nl>

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> On 8. veebr 2017, at 14:26, Ronald Klop <ronald-lists@klop.ws> wrote:
>=20
> On Tue, 07 Feb 2017 17:08:44 +0100, Thomas Sparrevohn =
<Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> wrote:
>=20
>> Hi all
>>=20
>>=20
>> Last week I decided to upgrade my FreeBSD installation - it's been a =
while
>> (September 16 was last time). Unfortunately CURRENT does not boot and =
cash
>> in a weird way. Both 11-RELEASE and 12 CURRENT boot loader seems to =
attempt
>> to read blocks that exceeds the physical disk. Initially I through it =
was a
>> hard disk error - but after a "oh" experience I realised that the
>> "gptzfsboot: error 4 lba 921592" is actually beyond the physical =
boundaries
>> of the disk (300GB disk). In order to rule out different options - I
>> installed a vanilla 11-RELEASE on the 300G with a simple stripe - it =
also
>> gives the error but does boot - the LBA of the error is slightly =
different
>> on 11 CURRENT and comes up with LBA 921600
>>=20
>>=20
>> I have scanned all the disks for physical faults and there seems to =
be none
>> and I have tried doing a single disk installation on each disk - they =
give
>> the same error - Does anybody have any idea? Included Photos as =
sometimes it
>> get through to the actual boot menu but then crash in another place
>>=20
>>=20
>> I have some images - but they are 2 bit for the mailing list ;-)
>=20
>=20
> Can it be related to this issue?
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D144234
>=20
> Would be nice if you tell more about the system. CPU? dmesg?
> The 11-RELEASE did that boot from the same disk? In the mentioned =
issue there is the case that gptzfsboot does recognize a secondary disk =
(can be configured as mirror), but not the first.
>=20
> As you say UFS works, the bug might be in the gptzfsboot code, because =
that is not used for UFS.
>=20

There is another possible test scenario - to create pool on BSD labeled =
disk, so we can see if it is just about the zfs code itself or rather =
related to GPT. Or vice versa, try ufs on GPT labeled disk.

rgds,
toomas





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