Re: two recent snapshot installer problems

[Allan Jude]

I wOn 03/08/2017 14:56, Michael W. Lucas wrote:

Thanks for the hint, Toomas. But...

I updated my custom ZFS install/partition script, at:

http://www-old.michaelwlucas.com/zm.sh

I used this script at the command line partitioner in the installer,
then exited and let the installer take over.

The machine installs. After a "sysrc zfs_enable=yes" it boots.

So: bsdinstall doesn't like this box.

If anyone's willing to work on the installer in the next few days, I'm
willing to wait to work on this box. I will have to put it to work
before long, though.

Thanks,
==ml



I wouldn't be able to look at this until Tuesday the 14th. I am in Japan 
until then.


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Re: two recent snapshot installer problems

[Michael W. Lucas]

Thanks for the hint, Toomas. But...

I updated my custom ZFS install/partition script, at:

http://www-old.michaelwlucas.com/zm.sh

I used this script at the command line partitioner in the installer,
then exited and let the installer take over.

The machine installs. After a "sysrc zfs_enable=yes" it boots.

So: bsdinstall doesn't like this box.

If anyone's willing to work on the installer in the next few days, I'm
willing to wait to work on this box. I will have to put it to work
before long, though.

Thanks,
==ml

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Re: two recent snapshot installer problems

[Toomas Soome]

> On 7. märts 2017, at 21:05, Michael W. Lucas  
> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I want to open a bug report on this, but have no idea how to gather
> useful info.
> 
> Attempting to install
> FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20170301-r314495-memstick.img onto an
> eight-drive iX system. This machine previously ran -current, but the
> OS has been sadly used by book testing and I decided to do a clean
> install.
> 
> Used the Guided ZFS install, no networking, no extra users, default
> security. 
> 
> I want a two-way mirror for the base install, and the BIOS didn't
> provide serial numbers for each disk, so I wound up doing multiple
> installs, thinking that once I installed to the disk that the BIOS
> expected to be a boot disk, it'd find the pool and boot.
> 
> Each of the four installs failed to boot, giving me:
> 
> gptzfsboot: 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 messages are from low level disk IO, INT13.

if (V86_CY(v86.efl)) {
printf("%s: error %u lba %u\n",
BOOTPROG, v86.eax >> 8 & 0xff, lba);
return (-1);
}

So the error 1 is:

01h Invalid Command

Which means the INT13 AX=0x4200  is not supported by this BIOS. So, the 
question is, does your HBA is set in bios to IDE or AHCI mode? Changing that  
may make an difference, also usual suggestion - check for bios update, and if 
the host supports it, check the uefi boot… Of course, the fact that it did run 
fbsd before, points towards bios settings change...

the invalid command from INT13 extended read is by itself quite odd, but there 
is also possible another reason - if by any reason somehow the memory buffer 
for this call is from memory above 640k and so the invalid memory area was 
provided…

rgds,
toomas


> 
> Old disklabels? gpart -F destroy da0 through ada3. and
> reinstall. Nope.
> 
> In frustration I did an eight-disk mirror install. Got the same
> message.
> 
> Fine, I'll install to the Intel RAID satadom. It's a raid config, but
> it'll get me a working system. Select a ZFS stripe on raid/r0.
> 
> gpart: arg0 'raid/r0': Invalid argument
> 
> Mirror on the individual satadom drives?
> 
> Same boot message.
> 
> Any suggestions on how to gather debugging info for this?
> 
> Thanks,
> ==ml
> 
> 
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two recent snapshot installer problems

[Michael W. Lucas]

Hi,

I want to open a bug report on this, but have no idea how to gather
useful info.

Attempting to install
FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20170301-r314495-memstick.img onto an
eight-drive iX system. This machine previously ran -current, but the
OS has been sadly used by book testing and I decided to do a clean
install.

Used the Guided ZFS install, no networking, no extra users, default
security. 

I want a two-way mirror for the base install, and the BIOS didn't
provide serial numbers for each disk, so I wound up doing multiple
installs, thinking that once I installed to the disk that the BIOS
expected to be a boot disk, it'd find the pool and boot.

Each of the four installs failed to boot, giving me:

gptzfsboot: error 1 lba 32
error 1
gptzfsboot: error 1 lba 4294967288
gptzfsboot: error 1 lba 1
gptzfsboot: No ZFS pools located, can't boot

Old disklabels? gpart -F destroy da0 through ada3. and
reinstall. Nope.

In frustration I did an eight-disk mirror install. Got the same
message.

Fine, I'll install to the Intel RAID satadom. It's a raid config, but
it'll get me a working system. Select a ZFS stripe on raid/r0.

gpart: arg0 'raid/r0': Invalid argument

Mirror on the individual satadom drives?

Same boot message.

Any suggestions on how to gather debugging info for this?

Thanks,
==ml


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nonfiction: https://www.michaelwlucas.com/
fiction: https://www.michaelwarrenlucas.com/
blog: http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/
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