Re: Loader can't find /boot/ua/loader.lua on UFS after main-n255828-18054d0220c

Sorry for top posting...

Did you upgrade your boot blocks?

Warner

On Sun, May 29, 2022, 5:11 PM David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> wrote:

> -- but only on one machine (of the 3 that I use for daily tracking head
> (and stable/12 & stable/13) -- the build machine ("freebeast").
>
> Each is amd64, using ... venerable ... BIOS/MBR & UFS -- stuff that has
> generally been functionally stable for the last couple of decades.
>
> So for yesterday and today, I've moved the new loader aside and copied
> the one from Friday, which works just fine.
>
> The build machine ("freebeast") uses a GENERIC kernel; the other 2 are
> laptops, and use a kernel that includes GENERIC, then tweaks things a
> bit (e.g., dropping support for tape drives; adding IPFIREWALL and
> explicitly NOT setting IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT; adding sound stuff).
>
> Info on the update history & copies of stuff like most recent
> (verbosely-booted) dmesg.boot should be available at
> https://www.catwhisker.org/~david/FreeBSD/history/ (and if you can't get
> through, please send a note to dhw@freebsd.org and I'll do what I can to
> fix it).
>
> (Of the 2 laptops, I only have the one that I actuaqlly use in
> day-to-day work represented.)
>
> (I note that to recover, I boot from one the stable/* slices, move the
> "head" slice's files around, then reboot from the "head" slice.)
>
> AFAICT, there were no changes to stand/* since main-n255828-18054d0220c,
> though yesterday (main-n255828-18054d0220c -> main-n255840-9cb70cb4769),
> there were some changes to sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_subr.c (from
> main-n255835-076002f24d35:
>
> commit 076002f24d35962f0d21f44bfddd34ee4d7f015d
> Author: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@FreeBSD.org>
> Date:   Fri May 27 12:21:11 2022 -0700
>
>     Do comprehensive UFS/FFS superblock integrity checks when reading a
> superblock.
>
>     Historically only minimal checks were made of a superblock when it
>     was read in as it was assumed that fsck would have been run to...
>
> -- which doesn't seem a likely culprit to me).
>
> That said, I am powering freebeast up, and plan to run a manual
> full fsck on the "head" slice's root file system....  Maybe a few
> others, while I'm here. :-}
>
> Peace,
> david
> --
> David H. Wolfskill                              david@catwhisker.org
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>
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