Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:55:09 GMT From: Kenneth Vestergaard Schmidt <kvs@pil.dk> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: amd64/140661: /boot/loader fails to work on a GPT/ZFS-only system on both 8.0-RC2 and RC3 Message-ID: <200911181255.nAICt9dT057189@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200911181300.nAID07Yd069248@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 140661 >Category: amd64 >Synopsis: /boot/loader fails to work on a GPT/ZFS-only system on both 8.0-RC2 and RC3 >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-amd64 >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed Nov 18 13:00:07 UTC 2009 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Kenneth Vestergaard Schmidt >Release: 8.0-RC2 >Organization: pil.dk >Environment: FreeBSD mckusick.pil.dk 8.0-RC2 FreeBSD 8.0-RC2 #0: Fri Oct 30 17:04:18 CET 2009 root@mckusick.pil.dk:/usr/obj/dana/src/freebsd8/src/sys/MCKUSICK amd64 >Description: Two machines tested, and both fail. Both installed according to http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot but one of them with an added disk in a mirror. Both installed and working as 8.0-RC1. Both fail after upgrading to 8.0-RC2, and ditto when trying 8.0-RC3. Upon booting, the following messages are visible just prior to an automatic reboot: 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. /boot/loader.conf contains: zfs_load="YES" vfs.root.mountfrom="zfs:pil" mckusick# zpool get bootfs pil NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE pil bootfs pil local >How-To-Repeat: Upgrade to something newer than 8.0-RC1. Reboot. >Fix: Downgrade /boot/loader to the one from 8.0-RC1. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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