FreeBSD 13.0 RC1 UEFI RAID-10 boot problems under VMware Fusio

[Ruben van Staveren]

Hi List,

With FreeBSD 13 getting near release I was trying out a new hardware setup for a future upgrade, in where a zfs SATA RAID-10 array would be accelated by some NVME devices for cache, log, and special meta data.

However, booting the setup under VMWare fusion gives me a lot of zio_read error: 5 / ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable whereas in VirtualBox using the same VMDKs the setup boots without issue, both in UEFI mode

I used the guided ZFS install, GPT UEFI only, and choose RAID-10 and zero swap as I want to use the NVME devices for that later on.

when on the loader prompt lsdev / lszfs / ls works through latter two throw out zio_read error: 5 but show recognisable output (zfs filesystems, files)


disk0 through 4 are the SATA disks with only an EFI and ZFS GPT partition each, disk4/5 is reserved for the special vdevs (but not in use yet) and swap

If I press escape and end up in VMWare’s UEFI setup screen I can boot from any ada*p1 drive and continue as normal.
Is UEFI with OpenZFS too new, or is this an issue in VMWare?



Also, I’m missing /boot/*efifat* in FreeBSD13. What is the procedure for updating EFI loaders?
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