Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 19:25:16 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> To: Nick Sayer <nsayer@kfu.com> Cc: "freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: kern/153804: boot from zfs kernel.old recovery undocumented/impossible Message-ID: <4DDE7EEC.5000708@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <C04E9E54-BEB9-4EE4-A32A-68E1530B3F04@kfu.com> References: <201105261440.p4QEe9Rd011893@freefall.freebsd.org> <4DDE6FAE.9070601@FreeBSD.org> <C04E9E54-BEB9-4EE4-A32A-68E1530B3F04@kfu.com>
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on 26/05/2011 19:14 Nick Sayer said the following: > 1. Man pages are not helpful when the system will not boot. Yeah, if you have only a single system. Non-hardcopy Handbook/Wiki/etc won't help you either. > 2. The page in question does not mention the correct type argument for the > zpool.cache (nor that the type is not material). Not that it necessarily > should, but in either case, loader(8) is not sufficient. Why should it? > 3. Perhaps it would be particularly helpful to print some kind of message as to > WHY the system failed to mount root - that the zpool.cache file wasn't loaded. > That message would be good google fodder to help folks with unbootable systems > get back up and running. That's a good idea. > All I know is that I have been without an answer as to how to recover between > January and a few days ago. That suggests to me the existence of a > documentation gap. Perhaps. It also shows that you have not been researching and/or asking actively enough. If you provide reasonable patches to FreeBSD documentation they will be welcome. You can also blog/etc about your experience, so that other people could pick your knowledge via search engines. > On May 26, 2011, at 8:20 AM, Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > >> on 26/05/2011 17:40 Nick Sayer said the following: >>> The following reply was made to PR kern/153804; it has been noted by >>> GNATS. >>> >>> From: Nick Sayer <nsayer@kfu.com> To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: >>> Re: kern/153804: boot from zfs kernel.old recovery undocumented/impossible >>> Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 07:31:13 -0700 >>> >>> Before this gets closed, is someone going to maybe add this to some = >>> documentation somewhere? This ought to go in the handbook at the very = >>> least. >> >> Which part exactly? IMO, loader(8) should be sufficient. >> >> >> -- Andriy Gapon -- Andriy Gapon
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