Re: New console output at boot?

On Tue, Sep 24, 2024, 11:47 AM Thomas Laus <lausts@acm.org> wrote:

> 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:
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> >     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
>

Impossible. Gptzfsboot is an earlier phase than the new message. It can't
produce a mismatch. Only loader/loader.efi vs /boot/lua/* can cause this.
And usually in this setup both are updated as a pair.

Warner


Tom
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