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Date:      Wed, 15 Feb 2023 16:11:43 +0100
From:      Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>
To:        Alan Somers <asomers@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-main@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: git: 7919c76dbdd2 - main - bsdinstall: use gpt/efiboot0 label in /etc/fstab
Message-ID:  <20230215161143.246cfa8146b0777b24bdb491@bidouilliste.com>
In-Reply-To: <20230215103139.c66c65a80b9be787deaa36a2@bidouilliste.com>
References:  <202205241917.24OJHipu099732@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <20230215103139.c66c65a80b9be787deaa36a2@bidouilliste.com>

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On Wed, 15 Feb 2023 10:31:39 +0100
Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> wrote:

> 
>  Hello Alan,
> 
> On Tue, 24 May 2022 19:17:44 GMT
> Alan Somers <asomers@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> > The branch main has been updated by asomers:
> > 
> > URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=7919c76dbdd20161247d1bfb647110d87ca5ee0f
> > 
> > commit 7919c76dbdd20161247d1bfb647110d87ca5ee0f
> > Author:     Alan Somers <asomers@FreeBSD.org>
> > AuthorDate: 2022-05-24 18:24:12 +0000
> > Commit:     Alan Somers <asomers@FreeBSD.org>
> > CommitDate: 2022-05-24 19:17:10 +0000
> > 
> >     bsdinstall: use gpt/efiboot0 label in /etc/fstab
> >     
> >     Otherwise, boot will hang if the numbering of disks has changed since
> >     initial install.
> >     
> >     MFC after:      2 weeks
> >     Sponsored by:   Axcient
> >     Reviewed by:    brd
> >     Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35309
> 
>  So, I understand the initial problem but this causes a new one.
>  efibootmgr is now confused when you ask to print the unix path of the
> ESP because the device resolved is still ada0p1 (for example) and since
> it's not mounted anymore as the label is used we can't discover the
> path to the mounted ESP.
>  Since it's now in 13.2 we've just noticed that at work.
>  We will parse glabel but it's really horrible to parse and it be good
> to have efibootmgr -E -p working again on a fresh install.
> 
>  Cheers,

 corvink@ created a bug entry for this :
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=269564
 It also break efibootmgr to install new boot entries.

-- 
Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> <manu@freebsd.org>



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