BE and loader integration

[Victor Sudakov]

Trond Endrestøl wrote:
> 
> > BTW the boot menu BE selection does not work properly anyway. I've found some
> > combinations of BEs and loader options which lead to an unbootable
> > system: http://admin.sibptus.ru/~vas/bad_be.png
> > Maybe it's sysutils/beadm's fault incorrectly creating BEs, whatever.
> 
> For some reason /dev failed to mount. Normally, the kernel 
> automatically mounts / read-only and /dev read-write. The former is 
> upgraded to read-write by the rc scripts during multiuser boot.

I think I know the reason: it's several BEs trying to mount on top of
one another, again. I've seen this already in the pre-zfsbe times.

> 
> It could be a bug in 11.3.

It actually seems that the bug
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=208601 is not really
fixed. 

> 
> The menus are somewhat improved in stable/12 and head. Here are some 
> screenshots from a VM I just booted, it runs head from February(!):
> 
>   https://ximalas.info/~trond/FreeBSD-head-BE-menu-2019-feb/

Yes, it looks more logical though the BE punches the Daemon in the nose.

> 
> That dark blue colour is my only complaint. It can be a real pain to 
> read on certain terminals/video adapters.

Do you use sysutils/beadm or sysutils/beadm-devel? 

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
2:5005/49 at fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
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