Re: Weird loader.efi issue on fresh 13.1 upgrade

On 2022-06-19 13:02, David E. Cross wrote:
> So I just hit a weird issue with loader.efi on a fresh upgrade from
> 13.0 to 13.1.  The system comes up, asks me for my GELI password,
> accepts it, displays an error about Boot19 having only one DP, then
> iterates through all of the partitions on the disk... and then
> displays an error message about not being able to find a boot
> partition and displays a reboot counter.
> 
> 
> If I then interrupt the countdown at this point, get to a loader
> prompt and set rootdev and curdev to disk0p3: (the right value, and
> actually one of the values that it looped through!) I can then load
> /boot/kernel/kernel and boot everything successfully (including having
> the root disk unencrypted).
> 
> 
> This worked before the 13.0 upgrade.  This worked with the 13.1 kernel
> running against 13.0 loader.  It only stopped working with 13.1 loader
> with 13.1 kernel.
> 
> 
> Getting an *EXACT* copy of the error messages is a bit of a challenge
> given where this is in the boot sequence.
> 
> 
> I think I am about to start code diving about what makes loader give
> up on a partition.

Some investigation has already been explored at:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=264282