Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 08:33:29 +0200 From: Matthias Fechner <idefix@fechner.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 11.2 cannot boot with root on ZFS Message-ID: <c0f63bdb-fa6a-c29e-5b0c-a706b3562438@fechner.net> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1808061502320.50032@fledge.watson.org> References: <e49d702d-951c-47f3-0f8c-f26de2fc7613@fechner.net> <CACNAnaGFRzET_RN7Xd4rETQ5qCwUVhyEpqZXAtj29QdAbGt2mA@mail.gmail.com> <7415d752-21ab-a397-f90b-afe9945b2585@fechner.net> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1808061502320.50032@fledge.watson.org>
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Am 06.08.2018 um 21:10 schrieb doug: > I have an amd64 ZFS install from the USB file taking all the defaults. > Here's what my disk looks like: > > => 40 1953525088 ada1 GPT (932G) > 40 409600 1 efi (200M) > 409640 1024 2 freebsd-boot (512K) > 410664 984 - free - (492K) > 411648 4194304 3 freebsd-swap (2.0G) > 4605952 1948917760 4 freebsd-zfs (929G) > 1953523712 1416 - free - (708K) > > mount_msdosfs /dev/ada1p1 /mnt > cd /mnt/efi/boot/ > ls -l > total 385 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 393216 Apr 16 10:12 BOOTx64.efi > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 12 Apr 16 10:12 startup.nsh > > cat startup.nsh > BOOTx64.efi I played around and I found a solution, that maybe helps someone else too: I installed now a virtual machine with MFSBSD and upgraded it using freebsd-update. Upgrade was successfully done, I copied the boot folder to the PC the upgrade is failing, modified the loader.conf and reboot is fine now. It seems that freebsd-update damaged each time the boot folder while doing the upgrade which causes it to fail on rebooting the new kernel. Gruß Matthias -- "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." -- Rich Cook
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