Re: setting currdev correctly after repartitioning

On Sat, Jun 22, 2024, 9:23 AM void <void@f-m.fm> wrote:

> I've imaged with dd an rpi4 ssd and created on the hardware
> 4*8GB swap partitions, and have transferred with cpdup the
> freebsd contents from the image back to the ssd. The msdos-based
> EFI and rpi partition was unmodified.
>
> When I try to boot, it drops an OK prompt with the following error
>
> "Setting currdev to disk0p2:
> ERROR: cannot open /boot/lua/loader.lua: no such file or directory."
>
> The partition table looks like this
>
> # gpart show da5 (this is da5 on another machine)
>

How do you know disk0 in the boot loader is da5 in FreeBSD? Or that it's
even the disk you think it is? P2 is GPT partitioning, not MBR so you are
chasing shadows here, i think.

=>        63  1953525105  da5  MBR  (932G)
>            63           1       - free -  (512B)
>            64      524288    1  fat32lba  [active]  (256M)
>        524352  1952448512    2  freebsd  (931G)
>        1952972864      552304       - free -  (270M)
>
>
> # gpart show da5s2
>
> =>         0  1952448512  da5s2  BSD  (931G)
>             0    16777216      1  freebsd-swap  (8.0G)
>      16777216    16777216      2  freebsd-swap  (8.0G)
>      33554432    16777216      4  freebsd-swap  (8.0G)
>      50331648    16777216      5  freebsd-swap  (8.0G)
>      67108864  1885339648      6  freebsd-ufs  (899G)
>
> I wonder if freebsd-ufs needs to be the first slice?


No.

Is that what the error means?


Whatever disk this is, it GPT partitioned, may have a kernel but not the
lua support files. It might even not have a recognized filesystem on it,
but we think the ESP was on this disk

if not, how can I tell it
> that the loader is on (when it's installed on the rpi4) /dev/da5s2f ?
>

I think you'll be happier with labels for this. But you will need to set
things up with the ESP tgat booted.

it's not in fstab. context is -current and ufs2.
>
> fstab looks like this
>
> # Custom /etc/fstab for FreeBSD embedded images
> /dev/ufs/rootfs         /               ufs     rw,noatime              1
>      1
> /dev/msdosfs/EFI                /boot/efi       msdosfs rw,noatime      0
>      0
> tmpfs                   /tmp            tmpfs   rw,mode=1777            0
>      0
> #
> #/dev/label/growfs_swap none            swap    sw                      0
>      0
> #md                     none            swap    sw,late,file=/usr/swap0 0
>      0
>

There's much confusion here. That needs to be sorted out first.

Warner

>