Re: New console output at boot?

On 9/24/24 11:04, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 22, 2024 at 6:21 PM Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com 
> <mailto:rkoberman@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Since an update to current a couple of weeks ago, I now see several
>     lines (6 or 7) early in the boot. I'm not sure whether it is from
>     one of the boots or the loader, but it comes out so quickly (and so
>     briefly) but it vanishes on my display before I can read it. I'm
>     guessing that some part of the boot. I'm guessing it is a warning to
>     update one or more of the files.
> 
>     I'm running main-n272093-705583b76f3f on an amd64 system with UEFI
>     boot of a UFS2 file system. So far, I've seen nothing in UPDATING
>     that references it.
> 
> 
> I'll have to look at UPDATING.
> 
> tl;dr: It's telling you your loader.efi is too old and needs to be 
> updated. Too old here is somewhat too strict (since
> it requires a version bump recently, not the actual commits that 
> introduced the compat code that I'd like to remove).
> It's harmless, at the moment, but is warning of potential problems in 
> the future,
>
I see this same issue when 'gptzfsboot' on a non UEFI system is booted 
and before the startup menu is displayed and have for over a month. 
I've updated my boot partition to:

FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT #13 1c6bb4c57

Tom



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