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Date:      Mon, 21 Oct 2019 22:44:45 +0700
From:      Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BE and loader integration
Message-ID:  <20191021154445.GA77867@admin.sibptus.ru>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.99999.352.1910211457141.80880@enterprise.ximalas.info>
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Trond Endrest=F8l wrote:
>=20
> > BTW the boot menu BE selection does not work properly anyway. I've foun=
d some
> > combinations of BEs and loader options which lead to an unbootable
> > system: http://admin.sibptus.ru/~vas/bad_be.png
> > Maybe it's sysutils/beadm's fault incorrectly creating BEs, whatever.
>=20
> For some reason /dev failed to mount. Normally, the kernel=20
> automatically mounts / read-only and /dev read-write. The former is=20
> upgraded to read-write by the rc scripts during multiuser boot.

I think I know the reason: it's several BEs trying to mount on top of
one another, again. I've seen this already in the pre-zfsbe times.

>=20
> It could be a bug in 11.3.

It actually seems that the bug
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D208601 is not really
fixed.=20

>=20
> The menus are somewhat improved in stable/12 and head. Here are some=20
> screenshots from a VM I just booted, it runs head from February(!):
>=20
>   https://ximalas.info/~trond/FreeBSD-head-BE-menu-2019-feb/

Yes, it looks more logical though the BE punches the Daemon in the nose.

>=20
> That dark blue colour is my only complaint. It can be a real pain to=20
> read on certain terminals/video adapters.

Do you use sysutils/beadm or sysutils/beadm-devel?=20

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Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/

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