[CFT] Patch to bsdinstall to support root-on-ZFS and GELI

[Johan Broman]

On 19/10/13 17:23, Allan Jude wrote:
> On 2013-10-19 10:56, Johan Broman wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Just tested the root-on-ZFS install option using FreeBSD 10 beta 1. I
>> have 4 SATA drives in my server. I select all four of them in a RAIDZ1
>> setup. I hit enter to continue the installation and the zpool is
>> created, but I'm then returned to the zpool selection screen again. It
>> turned out that two of the drives had previously been used in a
>> (Linux) software mirror setup and because of this they got activated
>> in /dev/raid/r0. Because of this I ended up in an endless bsdinstall
>> loop.
>>
>> Removing the raid device using the graid command resolved the situation.
>>
>> Now maybe this is working as designed, but there was no warning/alert
>> to the fact that the devices couldn't be used. Perhaps a warning
>> should be rasied in this situation?
>>
>> Thanks for all the great work on the new installer, really looking
>> forward to FreeBSD 10!
>>
>> Cheers
>> Johan
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> Errors like that normally generate a msgbox dialog with the error output
> from whichever command failed. I'll have to dig into it and see where
> that problem is. I've seen other people have problems creating ZFS
> arrays after graid, but in that case it was an incomplete graid label
> causing a device to be locked but not appear in the graid status output.
>

Ah ok. A msgbox did appear but the drives that had the problem (ada2 and 
ada3) wasn't visible in the output. (not sure if the box itself has a 
size limit or maybe I was just unable to scroll down and see the 
errors?). The only visible output was that it was able to create labels 
on ada0 and ada1.

/Johan