Even trying to provision an encrypted volume at the default size results in the same behavior. I hesitate to assert that FreeBSD on encrypted EBS is broken, but it seems to be.
-----Original Message----- From: Colin Percival <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 1, 2021 6:46 PM To: Connor Sheridan <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Re: FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE x86_64 EC2 AMIs in us-east-2 not booting #2 certainly works. I think #1 would work, but honestly I don't use encrypted volumes; I've never been able to think up a plausible attack which they would protect against. If you try #1, please let me know how it goes, so I can relay that to the next person to ask. Colin Percial On 4/1/21 3:30 PM, Connor Sheridan wrote: > That's precisely the situation, yes. 32GB EBS volume. So, would either of the > following work? > > 1. Provisioning an encrypted volume at the snapshot size, then extending the > size of the volume. > 2. Provisioning an unencrypted volume at the desired size. > > Obviously #1 would be preferable. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Colin Percival <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, April 1, 2021 6:29 PM > To: Connor Sheridan <[email protected]>; [email protected] > Subject: Re: FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE x86_64 EC2 AMIs in us-east-2 not > booting > > 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 > -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-cloud To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
