Re: Mountroot problems on RPi3/aarch64

I'm a newbie to all of this. Sorry I don't really understand the
nomenclature!



On Wed, Jun 1, 2022, 2:44 PM bob prohaska <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 01, 2022 at 09:17:10AM -0700, Mark Millard wrote:
> > On 2022-Jun-1, at 08:41, bob prohaska <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Since about 05/29 mountroot has been failing on a Pi3 self-hosting
> -current,
> > > using a usb mechanical hard disk.
> > >
> > > Anybody else seen this sort of behavior?
> >
> > You do not report much context. FreeBSD version? UFS? ZFS?
>
> -current, UFS.
>
> >
> > However, there has been today (for main):
> >
> > git: bc218d89200f - main - Two bug fixes to UFS/FFS superblock integrity
> checks when reading a superblock
> >
> > that is for fixing boot problems in UFS contexts. See:
> >
> >
> https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/dev-commits-src-main/2022-June/006977.html
> >
> > This is for fixes related to the 2022-May-27 change:
> >
> >       ??? git: 076002f24d35 - main - Do comprehensive UFS/FFS superblock
> integrity checks when reading a superblock. Kirk McKusick
> >
>
> It sounds like there's some hope the trouble isn't purely local to my
> machines. I'll just continue to update and hope for the best. A Pi3
> running -current as well as a Pi3 running stable/13 seem to be affected.
> A Pi4 running -current works perfectly. All use UFS on mechanical
> hard disks.
>
> FWIW, one boot attempt followed the mountroot failure
> with a kernel panic and backtrace, but I inadvertently wiped
> out the console transcript before I could post it. If that
> happens again I'll take more care.
>
> Thanks to everyone who replied, especially Mark!
>
> bob
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