Boot loader stuck after first stage upgrading 11.2 to 12.0-RC2

[Marc Branchaud]

On 2019-12-13 8:29 p.m., sashk wrote:
> I hit this issue about year ago and Toomas Soome was able to figure out what was causing this and fixed in the https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=342151
> 
> I believe this got into 12.1.

It did, along with a later fix for UEFI:

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=342618

Thanks all!

		M.

> -Aleks
> 
> 
> 13.12.2019, 15:59, "Marc Branchaud" <marcnarc at gmail.com>:
>> On 2019-12-10 10:16 p.m., Eugene Grosbein wrote:
>>>   10.12.2019 23:08, Mark Martinec пишет:
>>>>   2019-12-10 16:35, Marc Branchaud wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>   On 2019-12-10 9:18 a.m., Mark Martinec wrote:
>>>>>>   Commenting on a thread from 2018-12 and from 2019-09-20, with my solution
>>>>>>   to the boot problem at the end, in case anyone is still interested.
>>>>>
>>>>>   Thank you very much for this. A couple of questions:
>>>>>
>>>>>   (1) Why do you say "raw devices for historical reasons"? Glancing
>>>>>   through the zpool man page and the Handbook, I see nothing
>>>>>   recommending or requiring GPT partitions.
>>>>
>>>>   Apparently using raw devices for zpool is now discouraged,
>>>>   although I don't think it has ever become officially unsupported.
>>>
>>>   Loader bugs do not mean that "using raw devices for zpool is now discouraged".
>>
>> Glad to hear that!
>>
>> Should there be a PR for this issue? (A quick Bugzilla search for
>> "zpool gpt boot" found nothing...)
>>
>>                  M.
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