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Date:      Thu, 1 Apr 2021 22:28:49 +0000
From:      Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>
To:        Connor Sheridan <cws@nullsec.sh>, "freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org" <freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE x86_64 EC2 AMIs in us-east-2 not booting
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On 4/1/21 2:57 PM, Connor Sheridan wrote:
> I've attempted to provision x86_64 instances in AWS region us-east-2 from both the Marketplace AMIs and the specific AMI ID provided by the 12.2-RELEASE announcement, and they just get stuck in an endless boot loop. Appears to load the kernel, then reboot instantly. Are there any known gotchas about provisioning this release or anything I can do to get these running?

There seems to be an issue related to encrypted disks -- possibly specifically
related to creating an EBS encrypted volume which is larger than the backing
snapshot.

Are you using an encrypted disk?

-- 
Colin Percival
Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid



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