USB disks dropping off-line

2019-01-11 Thread Kevin Oberman
Que Twilight Zone theme. For your consideration: This started in December when I was running 11.2-STABLE. Starting in December, when I try to backup my laptop to a USB drive, it periodically dropped off-line (disconnected) and immediately reconnected. This was originally using rsync. It seemed fair

Re: Boot from one drive and load FreeBSD from another

2019-01-11 Thread Warner Losh
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 3:09 PM Walter Parker wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to boot FreeBSD 12 on a system where the OS is installed to a ZFS > pool that can't be booted by the OS. > > This is a pre-UEFI machine. It has a pair of SAS drives and 3 PCIe slots. > What I'd like to do is put the boot load

Re: Trouble booting from EFI with 12-stable

2019-01-11 Thread Gary Palmer
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 03:47:45PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 3:22 PM Gary Palmer wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 01:18:35PM -0600, Kyle Evans wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 1:15 PM Jonathan Chen wrote: > > > > > > > > On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 at 07:55, Stefan Beth

Re: Trouble booting from EFI with 12-stable

2019-01-11 Thread Warner Losh
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 3:22 PM Gary Palmer wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 01:18:35PM -0600, Kyle Evans wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 1:15 PM Jonathan Chen wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 at 07:55, Stefan Bethke wrote: > > > [...] > > > > The UEFI man page has a good explanation o

Re: Trouble booting from EFI with 12-stable

2019-01-11 Thread Gary Palmer
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 01:18:35PM -0600, Kyle Evans wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 1:15 PM Jonathan Chen wrote: > > > > On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 at 07:55, Stefan Bethke wrote: > > [...] > > > The UEFI man page has a good explanation of which files are involved in > > > booting: > > > https://www.f

Boot from one drive and load FreeBSD from another

2019-01-11 Thread Walter Parker
Hi, I'd like to boot FreeBSD 12 on a system where the OS is installed to a ZFS pool that can't be booted by the OS. This is a pre-UEFI machine. It has a pair of SAS drives and 3 PCIe slots. What I'd like to do is put the boot loader on the SAS drive and then have FreeBSD load from a ZFS mirror cr

Re: Trouble booting from EFI with 12-stable

2019-01-11 Thread Warner Losh
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 12:19 PM Warner Losh wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 12:17 PM Jonathan Chen wrote: > >> On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 at 07:55, Stefan Bethke wrote: >> [...] >> > The UEFI man page has a good explanation of which files are involved in >> booting: >> > >> https://www.freebsd.o

Re: Trouble booting from EFI with 12-stable

2019-01-11 Thread Warner Losh
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 12:17 PM Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 at 07:55, Stefan Bethke wrote: > [...] > > The UEFI man page has a good explanation of which files are involved in > booting: > > > https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=uefi&sektion=8&manpath=freebsd-release-ports >

Re: Trouble booting from EFI with 12-stable

2019-01-11 Thread Kyle Evans
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 1:15 PM Jonathan Chen wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 at 07:55, Stefan Bethke wrote: > [...] > > The UEFI man page has a good explanation of which files are involved in > > booting: > > https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=uefi&sektion=8&manpath=freebsd-release-ports

Re: Trouble booting from EFI with 12-stable

2019-01-11 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 at 07:55, Stefan Bethke wrote: [...] > The UEFI man page has a good explanation of which files are involved in > booting: > https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=uefi&sektion=8&manpath=freebsd-release-ports > > I mounted the ESP and copied /boot/boot1.efi to > /boot/efi/E

Re: Trouble booting from EFI with 12-stable

2019-01-11 Thread Stefan Bethke
> Am 11.01.2019 um 19:35 schrieb Stefan Bethke : > > > >> Am 11.01.2019 um 15:04 schrieb Kyle Evans : >> >> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 5:05 AM Stefan Bethke wrote: >>> >>> The loader stumbles over this error and then drops to the prompt: >>> efi-autoresizecons not found >>> >>> module_path is

Re: Trouble booting from EFI with 12-stable

2019-01-11 Thread Stefan Bethke
> Am 11.01.2019 um 15:04 schrieb Kyle Evans : > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 5:05 AM Stefan Bethke wrote: >> >> The loader stumbles over this error and then drops to the prompt: >> efi-autoresizecons not found >> >> module_path is then not set, and loader can’t load the kernel. Typing in >> eve

Re: Trouble booting from EFI with 12-stable

2019-01-11 Thread Kyle Evans
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 5:05 AM Stefan Bethke wrote: > > The loader stumbles over this error and then drops to the prompt: > efi-autoresizecons not found > > module_path is then not set, and loader can’t load the kernel. Typing in > everything by hand will boot the system OK. > > I just did a reg

Trouble booting from EFI with 12-stable

2019-01-11 Thread Stefan Bethke
The loader stumbles over this error and then drops to the prompt: efi-autoresizecons not found module_path is then not set, and loader can’t load the kernel. Typing in everything by hand will boot the system OK. I just did a regular make installworld installkernel (previous install was from mid