Re: old snapshot install images?

2017-05-04 Thread Toomas Soome
just for an update: apparently this was buggy BIOS and the BIOS update did fix it. The curious fact was that the gptzfsboot INT13 calls were failing, while pmbr INT13 calls were doing OK also the usb stick boot had no apparent problems. rgds, toomas > On 3. mai 2017, at 21:53, Toomas Soome

Re: old snapshot install images?

2017-05-03 Thread Toomas Soome
> On 3. mai 2017, at 21:53, Toomas Soome wrote: > > >> On 3. mai 2017, at 21:23, Michael W. Lucas > > wrote: >> >> On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 09:11:05PM +0300, Toomas Soome wrote: >>> On 3. mai 2017, at 21:06,

Re: old snapshot install images?

2017-05-03 Thread Toomas Soome
> On 3. mai 2017, at 21:23, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > > On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 09:11:05PM +0300, Toomas Soome wrote: >> >>> On 3. mai 2017, at 21:06, Michael W. Lucas >>> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 08:03:21PM +0300, Toomas

Re: old snapshot install images?

2017-05-03 Thread Michael W. Lucas
On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 09:11:05PM +0300, Toomas Soome wrote: > > > On 3. mai 2017, at 21:06, Michael W. Lucas > > wrote: > > > > On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 08:03:21PM +0300, Toomas Soome wrote: > >> There was many issues fixed step by step and some fixes for particular

Re: old snapshot install images?

2017-05-03 Thread Toomas Soome
> On 3. mai 2017, at 21:06, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > > On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 08:03:21PM +0300, Toomas Soome wrote: >> There was many issues fixed step by step and some fixes for particular >> problem did reveal next one (at least in some systems), and indeed, it

Re: old snapshot install images?

2017-05-03 Thread Michael W. Lucas
On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 08:03:21PM +0300, Toomas Soome wrote: > There was many issues fixed step by step and some fixes for particular > problem did reveal next one (at least in some systems), and indeed, it can > cause some problems if you are caught in middle of updates. From my point of >

Re: old snapshot install images?

2017-05-03 Thread Toomas Soome
> On 3. mai 2017, at 19:52, Ngie Cooper wrote: > > >> On May 3, 2017, at 09:41, Michael W. Lucas wrote: >> >>> On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 09:37:04AM -0700, Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya) wrote: >>> Ok. I was curious because there has been a period of

Re: old snapshot install images?

2017-05-03 Thread Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya)
> On May 3, 2017, at 10:39, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > > On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 09:52:09AM -0700, Ngie Cooper wrote: >> Ok. How big is your freebsd-boot partition? > > The size created by the installer. ;) > > I've run another install, this one with the r317181

Re: old snapshot install images?

2017-05-03 Thread Michael W. Lucas
On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 09:52:09AM -0700, Ngie Cooper wrote: > Ok. How big is your freebsd-boot partition? The size created by the installer. ;) I've run another install, this one with the r317181 snapshot (20 April.) gpart show ada4 shows this (hand-copied) 40 125045344ada4 GPT

Re: old snapshot install images?

2017-05-03 Thread Ngie Cooper
> On May 3, 2017, at 09:41, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > >> On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 09:37:04AM -0700, Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya) wrote: >> Ok. I was curious because there has been a period of time when 512b/sector >> disks have been broken and vice versa. >> >> I’m

Re: old snapshot install images?

2017-05-03 Thread Michael W. Lucas
On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 09:37:04AM -0700, Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya) wrote: > Ok. I was curious because there has been a period of time when 512b/sector > disks have been broken and vice versa. > > I???m going to operate under the impression that one of tsoome???s recent > changes to zfsboot

Re: old snapshot install images?

2017-05-03 Thread Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya)
> On May 3, 2017, at 09:34, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > > On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 01:01:10AM -0700, Ngie Cooper wrote: >> Hi Michael! >> - What sources are you using/revision are you at? > > Using r311461 amd64 install memstick at the moment. Uname says built > "Thu

Re: old snapshot install images?

2017-05-03 Thread Michael W. Lucas
On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 01:01:10AM -0700, Ngie Cooper wrote: > Hi Michael! > - What sources are you using/revision are you at? Using r311461 amd64 install memstick at the moment. Uname says built "Thu Jan 5 22:46:38 UTC 2017" > - Are your drives the 512 byte/sector or 4kB/sector variety? They

Re: old snapshot install images?

2017-05-03 Thread Ngie Cooper
Hi Michael! > On May 2, 2017, at 12:15, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > > Hi, > > About a year ago, I did a clean install on my desktop. No problems. > > I tried a clean install now, and it dies with: > > gtpzfsboot: error 1 lba 32 > error 1 > gptzfsboot: error 1 lba

old snapshot install images?

2017-05-02 Thread Michael W. Lucas
Hi, About a year ago, I did a clean install on my desktop. No problems. I tried a clean install now, and it dies with: gtpzfsboot: error 1 lba 32 error 1 gptzfsboot: error 1 lba 4294967288 gptzfsboot: error 1 lba 1 gptzfsboot: no ZFS pools located, can't boot The pool is visible in the live