Re: Improper shutdown leads to no-boot situation

2025-05-11 Thread Lloyd
Hi Henrich, > To be clear, fscking does not correct the issue with /bsd? It's still > just several KB? Is this random, or do you have the ability to readily > reproduce it? Correct. I looked into the issue more today and believe I've achieved 100% reproducibility. However, the problem is entirely

Re: Improper shutdown leads to no-boot situation

2025-05-11 Thread Robert B. Carleton
On Sun, 2025-05-11 at 16:25 +, H. Hartzer wrote: > Lloyd wrote: > > I've run across this a few times, where I've improperly shut down > > a VM (tapped the wrong button for power off vs ACPI shutdown) and > > this lead to an unbootable image with the message before boot: > > > > booting hd0a:/b

Re: Improper shutdown leads to no-boot situation

2025-05-11 Thread H. Hartzer
Lloyd wrote: > I've run across this a few times, where I've improperly shut down > a VM (tapped the wrong button for power off vs ACPI shutdown) and > this lead to an unbootable image with the message before boot: > > booting hd0a:/bsd: hd0a:/bsd: Inappropriate file type or format > failed(79). wil

Re: Improper shutdown leads to no-boot situation

2025-05-10 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Sun, May 11, 2025 at 03:22:39AM +, Lloyd wrote: > Nick Holland wrote: > > > wild guess: you have a "single partition" model, rather than the > > suggested, so rather than the root file system being fairly quiet > > during normal operation, you have a lot of overall filesystem > > churn tak

Re: Improper shutdown leads to no-boot situation

2025-05-10 Thread Lloyd
Nick Holland wrote: > wild guess: you have a "single partition" model, rather than the > suggested, so rather than the root file system being fairly quiet > during normal operation, you have a lot of overall filesystem > churn taking place. (I'm not a FS person...so I may be full of > ). Eh n

Re: Improper shutdown leads to no-boot situation

2025-05-10 Thread Nick Holland
On 5/10/25 14:45, Lloyd wrote: I've run across this a few times, where I've improperly shut down a VM (tapped the wrong button for power off vs ACPI shutdown) and ^^ well, an alarm bell just went off in my head. :) this lead to an unbootable image with the message before boot: booting hd0