Re: Lockdown adaX numbers to allow booting ?

> On 19 Sep 2019, at 21:48, Kurt Jaeger <lists_at_opsec.eu> wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
>>>> Also the question is, what you mean with ???system looses track????
> 
>>> I interpret the hang during boot as 'it looses track'. So I guess
>>> it tries to read the kernel from the wrong drives.
> 
>> no, loader does probe disks to see which devices make up the pool and hung system is not about reading the kernel from wrong place.
> 
>> I bet it is BIOS system?
> 
> If you mean: no UEFI boot ? Yes, it boots via BIOS, not UEFI.
> 
>> Since the raidz seems to be created partitionless, what version
>> of freebsd are you using?
> 
> FreeBSD 12.0p10, amd64.
> 
>> BIOS up to date?
> 
> The board is an X10SRi-F. dmidecode reports BIOS 3.1, supermicro
> has 3.1c, but the release notes do not mention things like that
> (or at least I don't understand them that way).
> 
> https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/X10SRi-F
> 
>> can you test pool visibility in loader with latest current
>> usb/cd start - like press esc in menu and check lsdev -v
>> (assuming you get to menu) ? the same with uefi?
> 
> I will test this when I'm at the facility. Will take some time.
> 

Those data disks are 10TB 512e, I can not recall if loader in 12.0p10 does ignore partitionless disks in pools or not, if the bios is buggy about large disks, that does explain the hung system… in that case, the loader in current should be fine.

rgds,
toomas