Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 23:38:15 -0500 From: Scott Bennett <bennett@sdf.org> To: matt.garber@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 11-STABLE system unbootable after update Message-ID: <201905200438.x4K4cFW5015125@sdf.org> In-Reply-To: <CANwXMPNs=zQ%2B9dA0xBcxJVrCbca1RJ3JOkjwEYGq9ab10QtrcQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <201905191259.x4JCxFOc012073@sdf.org> <CANwXMPNs=zQ%2B9dA0xBcxJVrCbca1RJ3JOkjwEYGq9ab10QtrcQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Matt Garber <matt.garber@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 9:00 AM Scott Bennett <bennett@sdf.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > Many, many thanks to the person who responded with the solution to
> > get past the
> > loader crash!! My system is now getting work done again, and the rest of
> > the new
> > problems can be dealt with on a running system.
>
>
> Out of curiosity, you mentioned in your previous email you created a new
> boot environment for this upgrade? since additional issues remain beyond
> the loader, have you considered rolling back to the known-good BE and
> attempting the entire process again (with another, separate BE) in a week
> or so? Especially since that would hopefully allow you to continue your
> other work without any additional issues or oddities to sort through in the
> meantime?
>
Yes, and I will likely do so, but not tonight. I am still exploring
what is new/changed in this revision (besides a broken zfsloader), and I do
have mprime back to work for the time being, so reverting can wait another
day. I have reverted a few times in the past, but was always able to start
that from the boot menu. This time really threw me until I received a reply
to my plea for help telling me how to use the previous loader to get to the
boot menu. I had already successfully run the r347183 kernel in single-user
mode, so I figured I could do so again. What broke the zfsloader was the
installworld step.
After reverting to r345498 I will try bringing my source tree up to date,
which would be quite a bit later than this broken r347183, and then run a
fresh buildworld and buildkernel anyway. If all that fails, then I'll just
go back to r345498 again and sit it out until 11.3-RELEASE happens before
trying again.
Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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