Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 12:26:34 -0800 From: Joe B <jcb2023az@gmail.com> To: iio7@tutanota.com Cc: Freebsd Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: I am sick and tired of the poor quality of documentation on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20231121122634.4efa1f2a@freebsd> In-Reply-To: <NjnQuB8--R-9@tutanota.com> References: <NjnQuB8--R-9@tutanota.com>
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On Tue, 21 Nov 2023 20:51:01 +0100 (CET) iio7@tutanota.com wrote: > Take a look at how it's done on OpenBSD! Take a look at have it's > done on Arch Linux! >=20 > When there is something that is going to break something during an > upgrade, you get timely information and a step by step instruction in > what to do - BEFORE you do it! >=20 > Something like this doesn't help! > =C2=A0 Pool 'zroot' has the bootfs property set, you might need to update > the boot code. See gptzfsboot(8) and loader.efi(8) for details. >=20 > I might need to update the boot code!? WTF does that even mean? >=20 > I never touched any boot code during installation so I don't even > know what that is! And reading those man pages did NOT help me in any > way. >=20 > So now I got a box that's borked with this beautiful message after > updating the zroot pool: >=20 > ZFS: unsupported feature: com.delphix:head_errlog > ZFS: pool zroot is not supported > Can't find /boot/zfsloader > Can't find /boot/loader > Can't find /boot/kernel/kernel >=20 >=20 >=20 I know exactly what you are going through i updated to 14.0-RELEASE from 13.2-RELEASE and i was stuck. I didn't know what to do. There are some outlets that can help though until the documentation gets better like the arch wiki and other places. I Been on FreeBSD a week 1. https://forums.freebsd.org/ 2. https://libera.chat/ then join #freebsd 3. https://discord.com/ & https://wiki.freebsd.org/Discord join the #helpdesk channel 4. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/freebsd 5. This mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/subscription/freebsd-questions When you ask for help don't complain just ask and layout what you've done and what you are looking for and you will get a response. Try it. Joe B
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