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

Johan Broman johan at bridgenet.se
Mon Oct 21 15:46:29 UTC 2013


Hi!

Sorry for the delayed answer. I've patched zfsboot and rebuilt the 
release. I now get an error message that ada2 can't be used, which is 
correct. Good stuff! :)

( I've recreated the test environment using a KVM guest with four SATA 
drives instead of the server I was using. I makes it easier to test stuff. )

Here's the screenshot:

http://212.181.212.146/bsdinstall/Screenshot_2013-10-21.png


Maybe one should be unable to select drives that are part of a graid in 
the first place? Or is that out-of-scope for bsdinstall at this point? 
(As I guess that requires too many changes/new lines)


Cheers
Johan


On 19/10/13 22:20, Teske, Devin wrote:
>
> On Oct 19, 2013, at 10:07 AM, Johan Broman wrote:
>
>> I recreated the graid mirror on ada2 and ada3 and reran the installation. I'm unable to scroll the msgbox using PgDn or arrow keys. There is no indication that the action failed and I'm returned to the ZFS setup screen if I hit OK.
>>
>> I have screen shots (taken with my phone) of the msgbox and "ps auxwww" output. Let me know what kind of debug info you would like. I've put the screen shots here:
>>
>> http://212.181.212.146/bsdinstall
>
> I've added a patch to fix debugging in the zfsboot script...
>
> http://druidbsd.cvs.sf.net/viewvc/druidbsd/bsdinstall_zfs/
>
> Feedback welcome.
>
> Johan,...
>
> Can you see if the patch sheds some better light as to what's failing?
>
> The patch won't fix the problem, but it should give us an accurate error
> message so that we can learn what precisely is returning an error status.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>


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