Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 23:16:06 +0100 From: Piotr Smyrak <ps.ports@smyrak.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No loader.lua boot error after upgrade to 13-STABLE Message-ID: <20220214231606.1365a52d@daleth.home> In-Reply-To: <20220209171659.5625c8cf@daleth.home> References: <20220209171659.5625c8cf@daleth.home>
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On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 17:16:59 +0100 Piotr Smyrak <ps.ports@smyrak.com> wrote: > After source upgrading my Thinkpad to 13.0-STABLE at c3915f848b56 it > ends up booting with an error: >=20 > ERROR: cannot open /boot/lua/loader.lua: no such file or directory >=20 > Yet the same source build runs flawlessly on my desktop with full > disk ZFS setup, the laptop is UFS based though. I have read a bunch of > tickets at bugzilla, including: 233098, 238749, 251250 =E2=80=93 and have= not > found a solution. Perhaps to help others that mind end up in this state, here is how one might restore a working state. During the installworld the /boot directory will conveniently get backed up copies of older loaders similarly to the way old kernel is shifted.=20 Removing /boot/loader, and copying /boot/loader_lua.old to /boot/loader_lua got me a working machine.=20 This older laptop has got no option to change BIOS options, as you might get suggested elsewhere. HTH, --=20 Piotr Smyrak
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