Re: Mountroot problems on RPi3/aarch64

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On Wed, Jun 1, 2022, 9:29 AM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 10:17 AM Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> On 2022-Jun-1, at 08:41, bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> wrote:
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>> > Since about 05/29 mountroot has been failing on a Pi3 self-hosting
>> -current,
>> > using a usb mechanical hard disk.
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>> > Anybody else seen this sort of behavior?
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>> You do not report much context. FreeBSD version? UFS? ZFS?
>> And so on.
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>> However, there has been today (for main):
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>> git: bc218d89200f - main - Two bug fixes to UFS/FFS superblock integrity
>> checks when reading a superblock
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>> that is for fixing boot problems in UFS contexts. See:
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>> https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/dev-commits-src-main/2022-June/006977.html
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>> This is for fixes related to the 2022-May-27 change:
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>>         • git: 076002f24d35 - main - Do comprehensive UFS/FFS superblock
>> integrity checks when reading a superblock. Kirk McKusick
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> I'd expect these to fix only the boot loader issues, not the mountroot
> issues, but it wouldn't hurt to try...  p3 is aarch64 which is UEFI which
> had the right MAXPHYS in the boot loader...  though since the change is in
> the tree, it wouldn't hurt to try it...
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> Warner
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