On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 9:21 AM Dave Cottlehuber <d...@skunkwerks.at> wrote: > > On Thu, 12 May 2022, at 07:12, Michael Schuster wrote: > > On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 11:38 PM Dave Cottlehuber <d...@skunkwerks.at> > > wrote: > >> On Wed, 11 May 2022, at 14:58, Michael Schuster wrote: > >> > I then created a new BE, mounted it on /mnt, removed /mnt/dev/* (only > >> > regular files and empty directories). Booting into that BE didn't work > >> > either, I got errors about missing "/dev/" files (can't recall the > >> > exact names). > >> > > >> > What do you guys (plural ;-)) think? > > > > Hi Dave, > > thx for your perseverance :-) > > > > I have (at least) one question for you before I attempt this: > > where do I get these .txz files? > > https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/amd64/amd64/14.0-CURRENT/ > https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/amd64/amd64/13.1-RC6/ > > > should devfs be in /etc/fstab? in my current BE, it isn't ... > > this is the bare minimum I used. NB my partitions have artisanal > GPT labels, yours will probably be different. > > # Device Mountpoint FStype Options > Dump Pass# > #/dev/gpt/swap0 none swap sw > 0 0 > /dev/gpt/efiboot /boot/efi msdosfs > rw,late,longnames 0 0 > tmpfs /tmp tmpfs > rw,mode=01777,size=120g 0 0 > > thats all I needed to boot to userland & login. I'm reasonably sure that, > assuming you have a default zfs install, you'd not need anything in /etc/fstab > to boot. > > > if so: do you have an example of such a line? In the instances I looked > > up, I wasn't quite able to make it work (but perhaps that's a dead end > > anyway). > > > >> # bectl activate -t vanilla > > > > does that ("activate -t") work on UEFI systems? The last time I used it > > (at least a year ago), it wasn't. > > Yes it does here. failing that just use `bectl activate`. The -t is > a very nice addition. > > Well, we're definitely on the FreeBSD-current email list here, so it's > definitely in CURRENT, and 13.1 RC.
Dave, all: findings: 1) temporary activation doesn't work for me: bectl accepts the option but there's no effect I noticed(*), beadm refuses the option. 2) booting into 'vanilla' worked - I got into a root shell on the console. Since I copied the files you mention (/etc/fstab /etc/rc.conf /boot/loader.conf) unchanged, that looks good. so ... this is probably a good starting point (again ;-)). I rebooted into the last "good" BE, mounted vanilla a clone of vanilla on /mnt (with vanilla a point to start again if anything goes wrong) and started with "pkg -r /mnt install pkg" ... but I admit it's getting late today, so I'll be lazy and ask if you have any further recommendations - I've come to expect them to work nicely :-) (and yes, I am grateful!) *) unless the first BE to be shown when I select 'boot environments' at boot isn't in fact the active one cheers Michael -- Michael Schuster http://recursiveramblings.wordpress.com/ recursion, n: see 'recursion'
