Re: setting currdev correctly after repartitioning

On Sat, Jun 22, 2024, 10:06 AM void <void@f-m.fm> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 22, 2024 at 09:46:34AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
>
> >How do you know disk0 in the boot loader is da5 in FreeBSD? Or that it's
> >even the disk you think it is? P2 is GPT partitioning, not MBR so you are
> >chasing shadows here, i think.
>
> When it's in the rpi4 it'll be da0 as it's a usb3-connected ssd and it's
> the boot disk (and the only disk) on that system.
>
> When this is plugged into my freebsd *desktop* it's detected as da5.
>
> >
> >=>        63  1953525105  da5  MBR  (932G)
>


MBR

>>            63           1       - free -  (512B)
> >>            64      524288    1  fat32lba  [active]  (256M)
> >>        524352  1952448512    2  freebsd  (931G)
> >>        1952972864      552304       - free -  (270M)
> >>
> >>
> >> # gpart show da5s2
> >>
> >> =>         0  1952448512  da5s2  BSD  (931G)
> >>             0    16777216      1  freebsd-swap  (8.0G)
> >>      16777216    16777216      2  freebsd-swap  (8.0G)
> >>      33554432    16777216      4  freebsd-swap  (8.0G)
> >>      50331648    16777216      5  freebsd-swap  (8.0G)
> >>      67108864  1885339648      6  freebsd-ufs  (899G)
> >
> >
> >Whatever disk this is, it GPT partitioned, may have a kernel but not the
> >lua support files. It might even not have a recognized filesystem on it,
> >but we think the ESP was on this disk
>
> Why does it say MBR ?
>

Because something is confusing things. You posted an error message with p2
GPT partition name. You then posted a show part with MBR label. That's the
confusing info we need to get to the bottom of. Is this a big in
loader.efi? Are there other storage devices confusing things? Is there some
way it isnt da5, but some other disk? We need to get to the bottom of
this...

What does lsdev say at the OK prompt after it can't find loader.conf?

Warner

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