digital ocean droplet, FreeBSD update from 11.2 to 12.2p4, zpool upgrade and boot sector ?

[Karl Denninger]

On 3/2/2021 14:22, John Kennedy wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 07:54:53PM +0100, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
>> I have one small droplet @ digitalocean, and updated the OS from
>> 11.2 to 12.2p4, and also did the zpool upgrade.
>>
>> Now: How do I update the boot sector for the additional zpool
>> features ?
>>
>> It normally says:
>>    gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 da0
>>
>> But I have no da0 on the digitalocean droplet ?
>    As always, be careful.  For my droplet, my disk looks like this:
>
> 	# gpart show
> 	=>       40  104857520  vtbd0  GPT  (50G)
> -->	         40        512      1  freebsd-boot  (256K)
> 	        552    4194304      2  freebsd-swap  (2.0G)
> 	    4194856  100662704      3  freebsd-zfs  (48G)
>
>    So, BIOS (gpart bootcode Ok, vs UEFI) on partition 1.  If your setup is like
> mine, you'd want to be using "vtbd0" instead of "da0".
>
>    So, presumably:
>
> 	gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 vtbd0
Snapshot the droplet before you do it -- just in case!
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