[Bug 295346] bsdinstall(8) ZFS option fails on ARM64 Honeycomb LX2 Host

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Date: Sun, 17 May 2026 23:39:23 UTC
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=295346

--- Comment #8 from Mark Millard <marklmi26-fbsd@yahoo.com> ---
(In reply to Michael Dexter from comment #7)

From: /usr/libexec/bsdinstall/auto there is:

. . .
exec 5>&1
PARTMODE=`echo $PMODES | xargs -o bsddialog --backtitle "$OSNAME Installer" \
        --title "Partitioning" \
        --item-help \
        --menu "How would you like to partition your disk?" \
        0 0 0 2>&1 1>&5` || exit 1
exec 5>&-

case "$PARTMODE" in
"$msg_auto_zfs")        # ZFS
        bsdinstall zfsboot || error "ZFS setup failed"
        bsdinstall mount || error "Failed to mount filesystem"
        ;;
. . .

So the message is from "bsdinstall zfsboot" indicating
failure.

# file /usr/libexec/bsdinstall/zfsboot
/usr/libexec/bsdinstall/zfsboot: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable

So that would be a better place for 'set -x' use.

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