From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Tue May 16 15:45:43 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83F43D70DF3 for ; Tue, 16 May 2017 15:45:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@omnilan.de) Received: from mx0.gentlemail.de (mx0.gentlemail.de [IPv6:2a00:e10:2800::a130]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0A47AA54 for ; Tue, 16 May 2017 15:45:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@omnilan.de) Received: from mh0.gentlemail.de (mh0.gentlemail.de [78.138.80.135]) by mx0.gentlemail.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id v4GFjfmv082519; Tue, 16 May 2017 17:45:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@omnilan.de) Received: from titan.inop.mo1.omnilan.net (titan.inop.mo1.omnilan.net [IPv6:2001:a60:f0bb:1::3:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mh0.gentlemail.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C3F3A966; Tue, 16 May 2017 17:45:40 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <591B1EA4.600@omnilan.de> Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 17:45:40 +0200 From: Harry Schmalzbauer Organization: OmniLAN User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; de-DE; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100906 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Toomas Soome CC: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: EFI loader doesn't handle md_preload (md_image) correct? References: <591B12C6.4040301@omnilan.de> <591B1A8B.6070803@omnilan.de> In-Reply-To: <591B1A8B.6070803@omnilan.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: ACL 129 matched, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (mx0.gentlemail.de [78.138.80.130]); Tue, 16 May 2017 17:45:41 +0200 (CEST) X-Milter: Spamilter (Reciever: mx0.gentlemail.de; Sender-ip: 78.138.80.135; Sender-helo: mh0.gentlemail.de; ) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 15:45:43 -0000 Bezüglich Harry Schmalzbauer's Nachricht vom 16.05.2017 17:28 (localtime): > Bezüglich Toomas Soome's Nachricht vom 16.05.2017 16:57 (localtime): >>> On 16. mai 2017, at 17:55, Harry Schmalzbauer wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> unfortunately I had some trouble with my preferred MFS-root setups. >>> It seems EFI loader doesn't handle type md_image correctly. >>> >>> If I load any md_image with loader invoked by gptboot or gptzfsboot, >>> 'lsmod' >>> shows "elf kernel", "elf obj module(s)" and "md_image". >>> >>> Using the same loader.conf, but EFI loader, the md_image-file is >>> prompted and sems to be loaded, but not registered. There's no md_image >>> with 'lsmod', hence it's not astonsihing that kernel doesn't attach md0 >>> so booting fails since there's no rootfs. >>> >>> Any help highly appreciated, hope Toomas doesn't mind beeing initially CC'd. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> -harry >> >> The first question is, how large is the md_image and what other modules are loaded? > Thanks for your quick response. > > The images are 50-500MB uncompressed (provided by gzip compressed file). > Small ammount of elf modules, 5, each ~50kB. On the real HW, there's vmm and some more: Id Refs Address Size Name 1 46 0xffffffff80200000 16M kernel 2 1 0xffffffff8121d000 86K unionfs.ko 3 1 0xffffffff81233000 3.1M zfs.ko 4 2 0xffffffff81545000 51K opensolaris.ko 5 7 0xffffffff81552000 279K usb.ko 6 1 0xffffffff81598000 67K ukbd.ko 7 1 0xffffffff815a9000 51K umass.ko 8 1 0xffffffff815b6000 46K aesni.ko 9 1 0xffffffff815c3000 54K uhci.ko 10 1 0xffffffff815d1000 65K ehci.ko 11 1 0xffffffff815e2000 15K cc_htcp.ko 12 1 0xffffffff815e6000 3.4M vmm.ko 13 1 0xffffffffa3a21000 12K ums.ko 14 1 0xffffffffa3a24000 9.1K uhid.ko Providing md_image uncompressed doesn't change anything. Will deploy a /usr separated rootfs, which is only ~100MB uncompressed and see if that changes anything. That's all I can provide, code is far beyond my knowledge... -harry