On Tue, Sep 24, 2024, 11:55 AM Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2024, 11:47 AM Thomas Laus <lau...@acm.org> wrote: > >> On 9/24/24 11:04, Warner Losh wrote: >> > On Sun, Sep 22, 2024 at 6:21 PM Kevin Oberman <rkober...@gmail.com >> > <mailto:rkober...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> > >> > Since an update to current a couple of weeks ago, I now see several >> > lines (6 or 7) early in the boot. I'm not sure whether it is from >> > one of the boots or the loader, but it comes out so quickly (and so >> > briefly) but it vanishes on my display before I can read it. I'm >> > guessing that some part of the boot. I'm guessing it is a warning to >> > update one or more of the files. >> > >> > I'm running main-n272093-705583b76f3f on an amd64 system with UEFI >> > boot of a UFS2 file system. So far, I've seen nothing in UPDATING >> > that references it. >> > >> > >> > I'll have to look at UPDATING. >> > >> > tl;dr: It's telling you your loader.efi is too old and needs to be >> > updated. Too old here is somewhat too strict (since >> > it requires a version bump recently, not the actual commits that >> > introduced the compat code that I'd like to remove). >> > It's harmless, at the moment, but is warning of potential problems in >> > the future, >> > >> I see this same issue when 'gptzfsboot' on a non UEFI system is booted >> and before the startup menu is displayed and have for over a month. >> I've updated my boot partition to: >> >> FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT #13 1c6bb4c57 >> > > Impossible. Gptzfsboot is an earlier phase than the new message. It can't > produce a mismatch. Only loader/loader.efi vs /boot/lua/* can cause this. > And usually in this setup both are updated as a pair. > Thinking about it, I found a hole. If gptzfsboot picked the wrong BE this could happen. And updating it might fix a bug that's causing it. Knowing when your system last updated the gptzfsboot would be useful... Warner Ps sorry for the strong absolute tone... Warner > > > Tom >> >> >> >> -- >> Public Keys: >> PGP KeyID = 0x5F22FDC1 >> GnuPG KeyID = 0x620836CF >> >>
