Re: FreeBSD 12.4: EFI: geli + UFS won't boot - fix available

From: David Cross <david_at_crossfamilyweb.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 03:08:58 UTC
One would hope. This is now the third time this has been reported. At least. I even personally wrote a draft en for it (for 13.1). And 2 other ENs yet to see a release, also with bugs and patches and fixes committed to -CURRENT

> On Dec 11, 2022, at 10:00 PM, Andreas Kempe <kempe@lysator.liu.se> wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I updated my laptop running geli + UFS to FreeBSD 12.4 and this
> prevented my computer from booting. Booting failed with the EFI loader
> not finding my boot disk. Since I can't recall when I last updated my
> EFI loader, it might have broken before 12.4.
> 
> Searching the bugtracker, I found bug [1] which seemed relevant so I
> cherry-picked e417249016efcca73c9edad21b94b1315bc44601 to releng/12.4
> and it applied cleanly without any conflict. After the cherry-pick,
> the loader would once again boot my system.
> 
> Would it be possible to get this fix imported to the releng/12.4
> branch?
> 
> Best regards,
> Andreas Kempe
> 
> [1]: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=264282
>