Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 15:58:20 -0500 From: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@gmail.com> To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>, Mark Martinec <Mark.Martinec+freebsd@ijs.si>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot loader stuck after first stage upgrading 11.2 to 12.0-RC2 Message-ID: <b7ffaf65-3887-591b-958e-3fc4175656d5@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <998f886a-7498-7268-75cf-4e767835db82@grosbein.net> References: <22f5b92a09ea4d62ac3feb74457067f7@ijs.si> <5EEBAFC0-4FA3-4219-A918-7376F4223656@me.com> <f2737ffb236d39761767aa10a603c084@ijs.si> <0F5FCC70-EADB-4F9E-A391-F1A73BE5608F@me.com> <dc762bdf408c92daae826425fdba98d9@ijs.si> <B3C7194D-93B8-406B-9E8E-BA55D49D657A@me.com> <1543954753.1860.243.camel@freebsd.org> <EC8DD049-8BBE-4E96-A68B-A2846CED00BA@me.com> <53ceda24-fa1b-8546-3511-bd500b440dfe@digiware.nl> <4c4019102b63054f8de93324dba0e776@ijs.si> <f599acfb-20f7-fc53-9753-fcd37a923e8e@gmail.com> <e795a9731d83a0df7d065117048df5b6@ijs.si> <998f886a-7498-7268-75cf-4e767835db82@grosbein.net>
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On 2019-12-10 10:16 p.m., Eugene Grosbein wrote: > 10.12.2019 23:08, Mark Martinec пишет: >> 2019-12-10 16:35, Marc Branchaud wrote: >> >>> On 2019-12-10 9:18 a.m., Mark Martinec wrote: >>>> Commenting on a thread from 2018-12 and from 2019-09-20, with my solution >>>> to the boot problem at the end, in case anyone is still interested. >>> >>> Thank you very much for this. A couple of questions: >>> >>> (1) Why do you say "raw devices for historical reasons"? Glancing >>> through the zpool man page and the Handbook, I see nothing >>> recommending or requiring GPT partitions. >> >> Apparently using raw devices for zpool is now discouraged, >> although I don't think it has ever become officially unsupported. > > Loader bugs do not mean that "using raw devices for zpool is now discouraged". Glad to hear that! Should there be a PR for this issue? (A quick Bugzilla search for "zpool gpt boot" found nothing...) M.
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