8.0-RC2's /boot/loader doesn't like booting from ZFS?
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Wed Nov 4 13:18:34 UTC 2009
On Tuesday 03 November 2009 11:54:12 am Kenneth Schmidt wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Two separate machines fail when starting loader(8) after upgrading
> from 8.0-RC1 to -RC2. Both have been installed by following
http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot
> - one is a VMware machine with just one disk, the other a Sun Fire
> X2200 server with 2 disks in a ZFS mirror.
>
> They both booted fine with -RC1, but with -RC2 the last messages are:
>
> Can't work out which disk we are booting from.
> Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes, defaulting to
> disk0:
> ficl-s not found
> Assertion failed: (FALSE), function ficlCompileSoftCore, file
> softcore.c, line 428.
>
> Reverting to the -RC1 /boot/loader fixes.
Usually the 'Guessed BIOS device' stuff is caused by the loader re-executing
itself, perhaps due to a stack overflow.
--
John Baldwin
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