Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 14:28:12 -0500 From: Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> To: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org> Cc: Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 12.1p7 no longer boots after doing zpool upgrade -a Message-ID: <CACNAnaFEcHMcsePVsbKizHv3OKT%2B1qrDhtupQXD=BB%2BbZF7UaQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20200710184446.GA8358@gvr.gvr.org> References: <20200709131201.GA3464@co.gvr.org> <CACNAnaGbCknS18yLv1ow2FFnj5xSMHXQZgxfRPMUMTb5ujB=fw@mail.gmail.com> <20200710182903.GA7412@gvr.gvr.org> <20200710184446.GA8358@gvr.gvr.org>
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On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 1:44 PM Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 08:29:03PM +0200, Guido van Rooij wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 08:24:54AM -0500, Kyle Evans wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 8:12 AM Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > I did a zpool upgrade -a to enable large_dnode and spacemap_v2. > > > > After that, I did: > > > > gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 2 ada0 > > > > gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 2 ada1 > > > > and: > > > > gpart bootcode -p /boot/boot1.efifat -i 1 ada0 > > > > gpart bootcode -p /boot/boot1.efifat -i 1 ada1 > > > > > > > > Now the system no longer boots from either disk and drops to the efi shell. > > > > > > This method of updating the ESP is no longer recommended for new 12.x > > > installations -- we now more carefully construct the ESP with an > > > /EFI/FreeBSD/loader.efi where loader.efi is /boot/loader.efi. You will > > > want to rebuild this as such, and that may fix part of your problem. > > > > Hi Kyle, > > > > Thnaks for your asnwer. I have not got it to work with that > > configuration. What did work was to replace the /efi/boot/BOOTx64.efi > > with loader.efi and and change the content of startup.nsh with > > loader.efi. Withoyt the above answer I wouldn't have figure it out > > that quickly so thanks! > > > > I will investigate further once I have more time (early next week probably). > > There was one question I forgot to ask: > Could I have known that my method of updating the ESP was not correct? > If so, where is this documented? > It is probably unlikely, to be honest. I don't know that we do a good job of advising people/documenting how to update the ESP. In fact, I have no idea where any of it's documented except the wiki: https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI >From your previous e-mail: > I did not set this sysctl so most likely that was the cause. As the system > is up and running again I didn't test it. > Let me know if you want me to. It's working now, so I wouldn't bother- this is probably the most likely cause, the pool's demonstrably intact based on your latest report. Thanks, Kyel EVans
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