From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 4 13:18:34 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FAD11065692 for ; Wed, 4 Nov 2009 13:18:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 014F18FC1D for ; Wed, 4 Nov 2009 13:18:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A5BBA46B03; Wed, 4 Nov 2009 08:18:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from jhbbsd.hudson-trading.com (unknown [209.249.190.8]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPA id E16768A01D; Wed, 4 Nov 2009 08:18:32 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 08:14:37 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <90FB6778-7853-420E-8931-9EE78E95E8F1@binarysolutions.dk> In-Reply-To: <90FB6778-7853-420E-8931-9EE78E95E8F1@binarysolutions.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200911040814.37997.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:18:32 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.1 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=4.2 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: Kenneth Schmidt Subject: Re: 8.0-RC2's /boot/loader doesn't like booting from ZFS? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:18:34 -0000 On Tuesday 03 November 2009 11:54:12 am Kenneth Schmidt wrote: > Hello. > > Two separate machines fail when starting loader(8) after upgrading > from 8.0-RC1 to -RC2. Both have been installed by following http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot > - one is a VMware machine with just one disk, the other a Sun Fire > X2200 server with 2 disks in a ZFS mirror. > > They both booted fine with -RC1, but with -RC2 the last messages are: > > Can't work out which disk we are booting from. > Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes, defaulting to > disk0: > ficl-s not found > Assertion failed: (FALSE), function ficlCompileSoftCore, file > softcore.c, line 428. > > Reverting to the -RC1 /boot/loader fixes. Usually the 'Guessed BIOS device' stuff is caused by the loader re-executing itself, perhaps due to a stack overflow. -- John Baldwin