FreeBSD 11-ALPHA6 bsdinstall(8) fails with root on ZFS + GELI

[Jonathan Anderson]

On 5 Jul 2016, at 6:35, Marin BERNARD wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I’ve been trying to install  FreeBSD Current (11.0 ALPHA5 & ALPHA6) 
> with
> encrypted root on ZFS, and was unable to complete the setup process. 
> The
> installation stops just after the GELI volume is initialized, and
> bsdinstall(8) reports : mkdir : /mnt/boot : No such file or 
> directory. The
> debug log file is attached. Note that this is from an Hyper-V VM, but 
> the
> same error also happens on real hardware.
>
> Any idea ?
>
> Thanks !
>
> Marin BERNARD

I've done some speculating in 
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210815, but no answers 
there yet. I think the problem might be that the bootpool hasn't 
actually been mounted yet, so the /mnt/boot symlink points to a 
non-existent directory (/mnt/bootpool/boot).


Jon
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Jonathan Anderson
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