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Date:      Tue, 16 May 2017 17:57:53 +0300
From:      Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
To:        Harry Schmalzbauer <freebsd@omnilan.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, tsoome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: EFI loader doesn't handle md_preload (md_image) correct?
Message-ID:  <DD0FE9CA-48C9-4A77-81FD-8CA139D95543@me.com>
In-Reply-To: <591B12C6.4040301@omnilan.de>
References:  <591B12C6.4040301@omnilan.de>

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> On 16. mai 2017, at 17:55, Harry Schmalzbauer <freebsd@omnilan.de> 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?

rgds,
toomas


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