efi: WARNING: Unable to alias diskid/DISK-... to enc at n306168... - path too long

[Alan Somers]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 10:56 AM Chris <bsd-lists at bsdforge.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 10:48:08 -0600 Alan Somers asomers at freebsd.org said
>
> > On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 10:37 AM Chris <bsd-lists at bsdforge.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm getting the following message on a fresh install of 12.1:
> > > WARNING: Unable to alias diskid/DISK-WD-WCANM2154600 to
> > >
> > > enc at n3061686369656d30/type at 0/slot at 1/elmdesc at Slot_00
> /diskid/DISK-WD-WCANM2154600
> > > - path too long
> > > Actually, there are several similar messages. Which required me to
> > > perform several disk related tasks in order to get a successful boot
> > > into the new system. It's GPT/UFS(2) if it matters. But I suspect
> > > it's more related to fbsd' implementation of EFI, as it relates to my
> > > BIOS' implementation (Intel Sandy Bridge). What can I do to make
> > > everything happy?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > --Chris
> > >
> > When did you see that message?  Was it printed from the bootloader, or
> > after you booted?  If it happened after boot, then they're probably
> > harmless, but you can make them go away by setting
> > kern.geom.label.disk_ident.enable=0.
> Thanks for the reply!
> It's during boot, and found in dmesg.boot. I wouldn't care so much,
> except I was unable to boot into the system until I performed a
> gpart modify -i <N> -l <SLICE-LABEL> on all the slices, and modify
> fstab(5) accordingly. Kind of a rough start for an install IMHO. :)
>
> Thanks again, for the reply, Alan!
>
> --Chris
>
How did you setup your zroot?  This shouldn't matter unless you used those
long aliases as the vdevs for your zroot pool.