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Date:      Thu, 9 Mar 2017 18:37:18 -0800
From:      Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: input/output error @boot
Message-ID:  <b1d88a71-675f-67d4-e08f-e7356a0cd6f5@nomadlogic.org>
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On 3/9/17 8:10 AM, Pete Wright wrote:
>
>
> On 3/9/17 4:42 AM, Dexuan Cui wrote:
>>> From: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
>>> current@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Pete Wright
>>> Sent: Thursday, March 9, 2017 14:04
>>> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
>>> Subject: Re: input/output error @boot
>>> On 3/8/17 10:00 PM, Dexuan Cui wrote:
>>>> For now, I suggest we should only apply the idea "reduce the size of
>>>> the
>>>> staging area if necessary" to VM running on Hyper-V, we should
>>>> restore the
>>>> old behavior on physical machines since that has been working for
>>>> people
>>>> for a long period of time, though it's  potentially unsafe.
>>>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>> i'd like to see the old behaviour for physical machines to be restored
>>> as well since this has rendered my drm-next test rig broken :(
>>>
>>> -pete
>>
>> Eventually I committed 314956 for the issue:
>> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=314956
>> The old behaviour for physical machines are restored.
>>
>> PS, I understand usually I should put the patch on phabricator for
>> review,
>> before it's committed, but since the issue here is critical, I
>> committed it
>> directly to unblock people first. Sorry.
>> Please comment on the patch if you think it needs rework  -- I hope
>> not. :-)
>>
>
> Thank you Dexuan - I will do a build today and reboot when I am home
> from work tonight.  FWIW I verified that if I boot my system with in
> "classic" BIOS mode I am able to load the kernel and go multi-user, so
> this is probably the fix for me.
>

Happy to report that 314956 addresses the issue I was having with UEFI 
not booting.  Thanks for the fix!

-pete

-- 
Pete Wright
pete@nomadlogic.org
@nomadlogicLA



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