Re: unable to boot latest 14-stable

On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 10:19:48AM +0100, void wrote:
>Do you think the following might allow the system to boot:
>
>1. get 14-stable beta5 and on another freebsd box, mount its msdos partition
>with mdconfig -f
>
>2. unplug the usb3 disk from the rpi, plug it into the freebsd box, 
>do the same as [1]
>
>3. copy the contents of [1] into [2]
>
>I'm worried the process might clobber something GELI needs though, 
>rendering the zpool/disk permanently inaccessible.

Following this process allowed it to boot. GELI wasn't clobbered.

The daemon menu defaults to "5. Cons: Video" so this must be changed to 
make the serial console fully work again.

The issue, seemingly, wasn't one with the zpool itself, or unknown features. 
After getting it to boot:

# zpool status -v
   pool: zroot
    state: ONLINE
      scan: scrub repaired 0B in 01:20:01 with 0 errors on Sun Oct  1 22:09:40 2023
      config:

      NAME         STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
      zroot        ONLINE       0     0     0
          da0p3.eli  ONLINE       0     0     0

          errors: No known data errors

I've saved onto another machine the problematic msdos partition contents 
so I can try and work out what's going on.
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