Re: Loader needs to be updated message

On Sat, Sep 7, 2024, 9:24 PM Tomoaki AOKI <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp> wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Sep 2024 19:52:53 -0700
> Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Tomoaki AOKI <junchoon_at_dec.sakura.ne.jp> wrote on
> > Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2024 01:54:28 UTC :
> >
> > > On Sun, 8 Sep 2024 02:01:02 +0100
> > > void <void@f-m.fm> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Sun, Sep 08, 2024 at 09:23:02AM +0900, Tomoaki AOKI wrote:
> > > >
> > > > . . .
> > >
> > > If not automounted, you can mount ESP manually as msdosfs there, at
> > > least for bare-metal host. IIUC, recent installation by bsdinstall
> > > creates fstab entry for it by default.
> >
> > void previously reported:
> >
> > QUOTE
> > # gpart list | grep -E '(Name|type|efi|media)'
> > 1. Name: vtbd0p1
> > efimedia: HD(1,GPT,b7731537-61da-11ed-9652-00a0981073a7,0x28,0x400)
> > rawtype: 83bd6b9d-7f41-11dc-be0b-001560b84f0f
> > type: freebsd-boot
> > 2. Name: vtbd0p2
> > efimedia: HD(2,GPT,b77a2687-61da-11ed-9652-00a0981073a7,0x800,0x2000000)
> > rawtype: 516e7cb5-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b
> > type: freebsd-swap
> > 3. Name: vtbd0p3
> > efimedia:
> HD(3,GPT,b7836ca4-61da-11ed-9652-00a0981073a7,0x2000800,0xdfff000)
> > rawtype: 516e7cba-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b
> > type: freebsd-zfs
> > 1. Name: vtbd0
> > END QUOTE
> >
> > There is no ESP present in the guest. Instead there is a
> > "type: freebsd-boot" partition for which one of the likes of:
> >
> > # ls -lodT /boot/gpt*boot*
> > -r--r--r--  1 root wheel uarch  62139 Apr  7 15:55:46 2024 /boot/gptboot
> > -r-xr-xr-x  1 root wheel uarch 109568 Apr  7 15:55:46 2024
> /boot/gptboot.efi
> > -r--r--r--  1 root wheel uarch 176062 Apr  8 01:15:54 2024
> /boot/gptzfsboot
> >
> > would be in use. None of the 3 support the combination EFI and
> > ZFS-for-root-file-system. The only one of those 3 supporting zfs
> > is: gptzfsboot
> > It is documented to only supports old style BIOS context:
> >
> > "man 8 gptzfsboot" indicates "gptzfsboot is used on BIOS-based
> > computers to boot from a filesystem in a ZFS pool".
> >
> > gptboot and gptboot.efi only support UFS according to their man
> > pages.
> >
> > If EFI is in use, then the ESP-ish partition is not from the guest
> > context but from some place else --unless the man pages are wildly
> > wrong about what is supported for the gpt*boot 's.
> >
> > ===
> > Mark Millard
> > marklmi at yahoo.com
>
> Ah, I've overlooked that. Thanks.
> So boot1.efi is not usable here just as gptboot.efi.
> gptzfsboot is the only bootcode for freebsd-boot partition on GPT which
> supports ZFS, and corresponding loader WAS zfsloader but IIRC ZFS
> support IS now incorporated into loader[_lua|_4th].
>

Yes. If you are getting the too old error, then there is a preupdate world
booting a stable/13 after my change I think.

Warner

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> Tomoaki AOKI    <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp>
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