On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 2:21 PM Kurt Jaeger <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi! > > > You can upgrade to 13 w/o hassle. The upgrade process doesn't > automatically > > upgrade the zpools. The only problem is if you also do a 'zpool upgrade' > > which will change your zpool features. The fix is easy: upgrade your boot > > loader (bootx64.efi) on the ESP at the same time before rebooting... > > In the past there was this nice warning explaining what to do: > > gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 ada0 > Yea, pmbr and gptboot are now effectively built into the EFI boot loader... > Now, what would be the new procedure for that ? > mount -t msdos /dev/ada0sX /mnt cp /boot/loader.efi /mnt/boot/bootx64.efi umount /mnt > > There's nothing really to fix here. > > Well, it's very dangerous, and having a way to know how to fix > it would be very important. > You also need to know what you are doing when you upgrade your zfs pools. This should be called out prominently in the release notes, howeve. > > All the code is there. It all works. > > The upgrade is fail safe up until the point you do the zpool upgrade, > which > > has to be done by the system administrator. It's not done in the > installer > > or as part of 'make installworld'. > > I understand. But if the installer does not know that she/he needs to > do something with some bootx64.efi file... ? > > Can't zpool upgrade mention the necessary steps, as it did before ? > I wasn't aware it lost that in the openzfs upgrade... What did it used to say? Warner _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
