Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2024 12:24:25 +0900 From: Tomoaki AOKI <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp> To: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> Cc: Current FreeBSD <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Loader needs to be updated message Message-ID: <20240908122425.720c256cbe4a0c6ae77ded0d@dec.sakura.ne.jp> In-Reply-To: <FB3F11D6-B5EA-4446-AC01-CBE4511537B9@yahoo.com> References: <FB3F11D6-B5EA-4446-AC01-CBE4511537B9.ref@yahoo.com> <FB3F11D6-B5EA-4446-AC01-CBE4511537B9@yahoo.com>
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On Sat, 7 Sep 2024 19:52:53 -0700 Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote: > Tomoaki AOKI <junchoon_at_dec.sakura.ne.jp> wrote on > Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2024 01:54:28 UTC : > > > On Sun, 8 Sep 2024 02:01:02 +0100 > > void <void@f-m.fm> wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Sep 08, 2024 at 09:23:02AM +0900, Tomoaki AOKI wrote: > > > > > > . . . > > > > If not automounted, you can mount ESP manually as msdosfs there, at > > least for bare-metal host. IIUC, recent installation by bsdinstall > > creates fstab entry for it by default. > > void previously reported: > > QUOTE > # gpart list | grep -E '(Name|type|efi|media)' > 1. Name: vtbd0p1 > efimedia: HD(1,GPT,b7731537-61da-11ed-9652-00a0981073a7,0x28,0x400) > rawtype: 83bd6b9d-7f41-11dc-be0b-001560b84f0f > type: freebsd-boot > 2. Name: vtbd0p2 > efimedia: HD(2,GPT,b77a2687-61da-11ed-9652-00a0981073a7,0x800,0x2000000) > rawtype: 516e7cb5-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b > type: freebsd-swap > 3. Name: vtbd0p3 > efimedia: HD(3,GPT,b7836ca4-61da-11ed-9652-00a0981073a7,0x2000800,0xdfff000) > rawtype: 516e7cba-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b > type: freebsd-zfs > 1. Name: vtbd0 > END QUOTE > > There is no ESP present in the guest. Instead there is a > "type: freebsd-boot" partition for which one of the likes of: > > # ls -lodT /boot/gpt*boot* > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel uarch 62139 Apr 7 15:55:46 2024 /boot/gptboot > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel uarch 109568 Apr 7 15:55:46 2024 /boot/gptboot.efi > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel uarch 176062 Apr 8 01:15:54 2024 /boot/gptzfsboot > > would be in use. None of the 3 support the combination EFI and > ZFS-for-root-file-system. The only one of those 3 supporting zfs > is: gptzfsboot > It is documented to only supports old style BIOS context: > > "man 8 gptzfsboot" indicates "gptzfsboot is used on BIOS-based > computers to boot from a filesystem in a ZFS pool". > > gptboot and gptboot.efi only support UFS according to their man > pages. > > If EFI is in use, then the ESP-ish partition is not from the guest > context but from some place else --unless the man pages are wildly > wrong about what is supported for the gpt*boot 's. > > === > Mark Millard > marklmi at yahoo.com Ah, I've overlooked that. Thanks. So boot1.efi is not usable here just as gptboot.efi. gptzfsboot is the only bootcode for freebsd-boot partition on GPT which supports ZFS, and corresponding loader WAS zfsloader but IIRC ZFS support IS now incorporated into loader[_lua|_4th]. -- Tomoaki AOKI <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp>
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