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Date:      Mon, 30 May 2022 16:13:38 -0700
From:      Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>
To:        David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "<dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org>" <dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org>, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org, Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
Subject:   Re: git: 076002f24d35 - main - Do comprehensive UFS/FFS superblock  integrity checks when reading a superblock.
Message-ID:  <20220530231338.CCBF619E@slippy.cwsent.com>
In-Reply-To: <YpVIJ0ZuPCrGE5zy@albert.catwhisker.org>
References:  <202205271922.24RJMOJ2039923@gitrepo.freebsd.org>  <20220530215552.EE5432C@slippy.cwsent.com> <CANCZdfpovXadsxcS_YC2-NpJJX8S62YTfNTSfE9VHqoE6KsJPA@mail.gmail.com> <20220530222402.E22C7114@slippy.cwsent.com> <CANCZdfoqpDO9-APZytimd9TpPGsnaj0%2BwJBfdxv%2Bo2NnOX5ZUQ@mail.gmail.com> <YpVIJ0ZuPCrGE5zy@albert.catwhisker.org>

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In message <YpVIJ0ZuPCrGE5zy@albert.catwhisker.org>, David Wolfskill writes:
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> On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 04:33:47PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> > On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 4:24 PM Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>
> > wrote:
> >=20
> > > Upgrading boot blocks didn't help either.
> > >
> > > It only happened on one of four machines. Likely because the other three
> > > are AMD on Asus MBs while the problem machine is an Acer laptop running
> > > Intel.
>
> In my case, the laptops are OK, but my build machine is affected.
>
> Info on it is anchored from
> https://www.catwhisker.org/~david/FreeBSD/history/ (ref. machine
> "freebeast").
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> > David Wolfskill reported the same: some are affected, others not.
> > It's unclear why, exactly, but all the other details you gave track
> > with the troubleshooting tsoome and I have been doing with him.
>
> I suppose it's a bit of a relief to know I'm not alone in this. :-}
>
> > The issue is inside of loader.efi or /boot/loader, not in the earlier
> > boot blocks.
> > ....
>
> I've ended up putting a gzipped dd image of the full file system from
> /dev/ada0s4a up at https://www.catwhisker.org/~david/FreeBSD/head/loader/

As I said before, I don't think the filesystem image will give us any clues 
to what the problem might be. It's not a filesystem problem. It's likely 
how memory is laid out at the time.


-- 
Cheers,
Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> or <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>
FreeBSD UNIX:  <cy@FreeBSD.org>   Web:  http://www.FreeBSD.org
NTP:           <cy@nwtime.org>    Web:  https://nwtime.org

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