old snapshot install images?

[Toomas Soome]

> On 3. mai 2017, at 19:52, Ngie Cooper <yaneurabeya at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On May 3, 2017, at 09:41, Michael W. Lucas <mwlucas at michaelwlucas.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 09:37:04AM -0700, Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya) wrote:
>>> Ok. I was curious because there has been a period of time when 512b/sector disks have been broken and vice versa.
>>> 
>>> I’m going to operate under the impression that one of tsoome’s recent changes to zfsboot fixed things (there was some breakage over the past couple months based on posts to current@ and svn-src-*@), but I can’t count on it 100%.
>> 
>> 
>> The most recent installer snapshot has the exact same problem.
>> 
>> Every installer snapshot on the FTP site has the exact same problem.
>> 
>> I've gotten some installer snapshots from October and from
>> mid-2015. Trying those.
>> 
>> My goal is to find out when the problem appeared and include the time
>> window in the PR.
> 
> Ok. How big is your freebsd-boot partition?
> Thanks,
> -Ngie


There was many issues fixed step by step and some fixes for particular problem did reveal next one (at least in some systems), and indeed, it can cause some problems if you are caught in middle of updates. From my point of view, the most important question is if the current “current” is ok:)

rgds,
toomas