Question about 'gptzfsboot'

[Toomas Soome]

> On 26 Apr 2019, at 14:31, Thomas Laus <lausts at acm.org> wrote:
> 
> List:
> 
> I have been having gptzfsboot issues with my two laptops since 12.0 was
> still CURRENT.  I receive 'error 1' on the first boot most days.
> 
> gptzfsboot: error 1 LBA 18446744072709551608
> gptzfsboot: error 1 LBA 1
> gptzfsboot: No ZFS pools located, can't boot
> 
> Most of the time the boot process is successful on my next attempt.
> This happens on two different laptops (different manufacturer).
> Different hard drives (one mechanical, the other SSD).  Both laptops are
> running 13.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT r346544 GENERIC-NODEBUG.  All
> of my desktop computers are running the same version of FreeBSD and
> never exhibit this issue.  Is there something unique to a laptop reading
> the boot record and looking for a GELI encrypted partition that a
> desktop does not?
> 


The key is about LBA in first message. Make sure you have latest boot code installed with gpart.

rgds,
toomas