Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2017 18:33:21 +0200 From: Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> To: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: gptzfsboot trouble Message-ID: <26D78147-119E-4BB7-B567-2B2C09C321BE@me.com> In-Reply-To: <000d01d2815c$74f1be60$5ed53b20$@btinternet.com> References: <000d01d2815c$74f1be60$5ed53b20$@btinternet.com>
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> On 7. veebr 2017, at 18:08, Thomas Sparrevohn = <Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> wrote: >=20 > Hi all >=20 >=20 >=20 > Last week I decided to upgrade my FreeBSD installation - it's been a = while > (September 16 was last time). Unfortunately CURRENT does not boot and = cash > in a weird way. Both 11-RELEASE and 12 CURRENT boot loader seems to = attempt > to read blocks that exceeds the physical disk. Initially I through it = was a > hard disk error - but after a "oh" experience I realised that the > "gptzfsboot: error 4 lba 921592" is actually beyond the physical = boundaries > of the disk (300GB disk). In order to rule out different options - I > installed a vanilla 11-RELEASE on the 300G with a simple stripe - it = also > gives the error but does boot - the LBA of the error is slightly = different > on 11 CURRENT and comes up with LBA 921600 >=20 >=20 >=20 > I have scanned all the disks for physical faults and there seems to be = none > and I have tried doing a single disk installation on each disk - they = give > the same error - Does anybody have any idea? Included Photos as = sometimes it > get through to the actual boot menu but then crash in another place >=20 The gptzfsboot does read the backup label from the disk and the GPT = backup label is stored at the end of the disk. The location of the = backup label is in the primary GPT table, alternate sector field. I = wonder if that location is somehow set to bad value=E2=80=A6 rgds, toomas=
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