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Date:      Thu, 4 Jun 2020 19:46:05 +0300
From:      Michael Pounov <misho@elwix.org>
To:        ae@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   userboot.so can't open rootfs partition if you use raw BSD partitions directly on disk without any slices
Message-ID:  <20200604194605.fca76c6ac5f47b1d2d64e955@elwix.org>

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Hi 

After upgrade from FreeBSD 12.0 to 12-STABLE of embedded image under BHyve guest I faced with bootloader issue.

>From FreeBSD 12.1 till current version of FreeBFrom FreeBSD 12.1 till current version of FreeBSD. userboot.so loader haves issue with raw BSD partitions directly on disk without any PC slice schema aka MBR or GPT.

Bug came after commit, when predefine constant values was replaced with macro definitions in userboot/main.c and common/disk.c. These two members of devsw structure d_slice and d_partition now have defined constants. One of them have different value from previous version of code.
D_PARTWILD now have value -2, before that change dev.d_partition has 0.

I didn't take easy step directly to change macro D_PARTWILD to 0, because I saw that uboot loader already used this macro.
I made patch in common/disk.c file into disk_open() functionSD. userboot.so loader haves issue with raw BSD partitions directly on disk without any PC slice schema aka MBR or GPT.

Bug came after commit, when predefine constant values was replaced with macro definitions in userboot/main.c and common/disk.c. These two members of devsw structure d_slice and d_partition now have defined constants. One of them have different value from previous version of code.
D_PARTWILD now have value -2, before that change dev.d_partition has 0.

I didn't take easy step directly to change macro D_PARTWILD to 0, because I saw that uboot loader already used this macro.
I made patch in common/disk.c file into disk_open() function

P.S. Patch was produced against base/head sources

Regards

Michael Pounov
CloudSigma AG



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