Positional arguments/load command broken in boot loader; cannot load old kernel

Xin Li delphij at delphij.net
Tue Aug 13 17:15:11 UTC 2013


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On 08/13/13 09:36, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> I made the mistake of installing CURRENT on my file server at home 
> this morning and thought I could just boot the old kernel, do a
> zfs rollback, then continue on my merry way.
> 
> Turns out I was horribly wrong.
> 
> In addition to colors added to the boot loader (ooooh shiny!!!),
> it appears the loading kernels with the load sub command from zfs
> pools does not work (load kernel.old, boot -s kernel.old, etc).
> Period. It works just fine with my stable/9 kernel/userland, but
> not the CURRENT one.

Don't work -- how?  I rebuild my laptop daily and does not see that
and I don't see a way Devin's changes could possibility cause problems
like this.

BTW since this sounds like a ZFS related issue -- did you do a 'zpool
upgrade' without updating loader or boot block and used some new features?

Cheers,
- -- 
Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>    https://www.delphij.net/
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