Re: Question about 'gptzfsboot'

> On 29 Apr 2019, at 21:47, Thomas Laus <lausts_at_acm.org> wrote:
> 
> On 2019-04-29 14:27, Thomas Laus wrote:
>> It was more than a broken console.  All of the other 2 computers that I
>> upgraded to r346885 were essentially 'dead'.  I could not even remotely
>> login to them via ssh.  All of them required a hard power button reset
>> to get into single user mode to let me comment out the rc.conf line that
>> loads the DRM driver.  The computer could successfully boot without DRM
>> activation but would go to a black console screen again with 'startx'.
>> This also required a hard power button shutdown.  I rolled back to
>> r346544 and everything worked again like before.
>> 
>> My disastrous update to r346885 included installing a new gptzfsboot and
>> pmbr in the drive boot record.  I did not try booting an older kernel
>> using the new gptzfsboot.  I was concerned about the lack of ssh login
>> when the computers lost their console, so I just rolled back my system
>> to the last snapshot made a week ago.
>> 
> Ian:
> 
> I re-activated the r346885 BEADM snapshot and booted from my
> 'kernel.old' from r346544 and everything came up OK including 'X'.
> 
> I don't know what that means.  It might be that I have a DRM issue
> instead of a gptzfsboot problem?  Everything except for the kernel is
> now running CURRENT r346885.  I am not using the updated
> drm-current-kmod because I am using the r346544 kernel.old.
> 

It means you have different issues - one is about gptzfsboot causing boot problems and apparently it got fixed when you did update the bootcode (the boot partition is global). But also you got bitten by DRM update, and since you had old BE around, you were able to load old kernel.

Now the question is, is that gptzfsboot issue really fixed or is it just the “warm boot” fix you were seeing earlier too.

rgds,
toomas


> Tom
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