From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Tue Feb 7 16:41:29 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78628CD593C for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2017 16:41:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from killing@multiplay.co.uk) Received: from mail-wj0-x231.google.com (mail-wj0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c01::231]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 15806EC0 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2017 16:41:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from killing@multiplay.co.uk) Received: by mail-wj0-x231.google.com with SMTP id b20so5446820wjs.2 for ; Tue, 07 Feb 2017 08:41:28 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=multiplay-co-uk.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to; bh=BqwY2EuenV6Ty0HH1s54kmvfiG/94hgY1aSwfbDdAsw=; b=EQwA1/McPv2+RLfoTN6tVvwoxEWaLpxm48CBeWKAF8lTt6WlKFqmaqy3XDSGF4N1aA IrfTR1WAIy07SLN4F3L8X9gT7Y8VoAIscBaAJamtOoVKQh1twk/wi96dtJKi3MUolEo1 nPsdQ93eVL+gRcI2L6w8bxxy7xM8jml1C+drntAaQM4JjU2QV/zWOB3G4CgUK2FCL/7K WKNO+pIjTEZqudxAL7M70SqCog8dYz3adjGSmL2tdyVHk7TrHm2DT4cpcmq7/rZH6ajh 46maagmBidFmbzeSo+ww1ID/9FwXiXgkZEXADNNqgn0FmzjcNvEHE0vKZ/RNAWwHNtJh ZqKQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to; bh=BqwY2EuenV6Ty0HH1s54kmvfiG/94hgY1aSwfbDdAsw=; b=t8LqwTl+bQMoASM7GX4ayL5Q8ZsVTfaw0sooJC3v8GTupiJJRVcJ57kfcH5nUbxQiQ hVGPZuY/TQXD/hO2+c+zSu7LisD9C1qUibg8DRm6E7xE0cZ0jCl92ouV/2eyycGNH0Hc XQD8xAex8XvhGwcM59opolb+m2NJF4PoQaSQz4+YTd9JrVTe3rAwMdKvPb710G5+Xei4 Ijwqpl/5dg8geg9+3Mbu2Co8vpJVVLyBLkiqk6uC2ycMl6box3Jr7bUn1ucPYuByOWOW OFj5xNVdl2gb6G84ZceVLch8z6+coBaPXtbTelRCwGuZMpmnN7r7BhoAKAb2C5zWB6XW Bghw== X-Gm-Message-State: AIkVDXKkepTzxrvRXmH8yEh+xKLIxPNHbYjjWTKPb2r4+Jrhm6mkPv+LUaLIaI65iB/l0Hkc X-Received: by 10.223.133.131 with SMTP id 3mr14962539wrt.161.1486485687025; Tue, 07 Feb 2017 08:41:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.10.1.58] ([185.97.61.26]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 61sm8225334wrs.29.2017.02.07.08.41.26 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 07 Feb 2017 08:41:26 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: gptzfsboot trouble To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <000d01d2815c$74f1be60$5ed53b20$@btinternet.com> <26D78147-119E-4BB7-B567-2B2C09C321BE@me.com> From: Steven Hartland Message-ID: <78739e6c-a645-25a6-a65b-968941fc4864@multiplay.co.uk> Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 16:41:25 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <26D78147-119E-4BB7-B567-2B2C09C321BE@me.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.23 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2017 16:41:29 -0000 On 07/02/2017 16:33, Toomas Soome wrote: > >> On 7. veebr 2017, at 18:08, Thomas Sparrevohn wrote: >> >> Hi all >> >> >> >> 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 >> >> >> >> 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 >> > > 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… > > Booting from a live CD and inspecting the label with gpart show should be able to confirm that. Regards Steve