Re: [CFT] Patch to bsdinstall to support root-on-ZFS and GELI

From: Teske, Devin <Devin.Teske_at_fisglobal.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 16:17:37 +0000
On Oct 21, 2013, at 8:45 AM, Johan Broman wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Sorry for the delayed answer. I've patched zfsboot and rebuilt the release. I now get an error message that ada2 can't be used, which is correct. Good stuff! :)
> 
> ( I've recreated the test environment using a KVM guest with four SATA drives instead of the server I was using. I makes it easier to test stuff. )
> 
> Here's the screenshot:
> 
> http://212.181.212.146/bsdinstall/Screenshot_2013-10-21.png
> 

Thank you so much, definitely says we're headed in the right direction.

It was bothering me that the debugging wasn't "up to-par."



> 
> Maybe one should be unable to select drives that are part of a graid in the first place? Or is that out-of-scope for bsdinstall at this point? (As I guess that requires too many changes/new lines)
> 

Perhaps we just need to do a better job of clearing previous
configurations from the disks that are to be used in the pool.
-- 
Devin

> On 19/10/13 22:20, Teske, Devin wrote:
>> 
>> On Oct 19, 2013, at 10:07 AM, Johan Broman wrote:
>> 
>>> I recreated the graid mirror on ada2 and ada3 and reran the installation. I'm unable to scroll the msgbox using PgDn or arrow keys. There is no indication that the action failed and I'm returned to the ZFS setup screen if I hit OK.
>>> 
>>> I have screen shots (taken with my phone) of the msgbox and "ps auxwww" output. Let me know what kind of debug info you would like. I've put the screen shots here:
>>> 
>>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://212.181.212.146/bsdinstall&k=%2FbkpAUdJWZuiTILCq%2FFnQg%3D%3D%0A&r=LTzUWWrRnz2iN3PtHDubWRSAh9itVJ%2BMUcNBCQ4tyeo%3D%0A&m=HwEpYSg1%2Bqv6o4vps1DECabNoHOTpZj5VxD1rbHI5jU%3D%0A&s=a27573c7279ac5bc926ca2dc872a18550ee8244421b91d85b9f51b202b23e168
>> 
>> I've added a patch to fix debugging in the zfsboot script...
>> 
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://druidbsd.cvs.sf.net/viewvc/druidbsd/bsdinstall_zfs/&k=%2FbkpAUdJWZuiTILCq%2FFnQg%3D%3D%0A&r=LTzUWWrRnz2iN3PtHDubWRSAh9itVJ%2BMUcNBCQ4tyeo%3D%0A&m=HwEpYSg1%2Bqv6o4vps1DECabNoHOTpZj5VxD1rbHI5jU%3D%0A&s=195830666030a264348cc1f37355789cd9ada04e0851b8c5769ce6426403fa28
>> 
>> Feedback welcome.
>> 
>> Johan,...
>> 
>> Can you see if the patch sheds some better light as to what's failing?
>> 
>> The patch won't fix the problem, but it should give us an accurate error
>> message so that we can learn what precisely is returning an error status.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance.
>> 

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