[oi-dev] Bootloader as of today damaged?

[Michal Nowak]

On 09/28/19 03:29 PM, Toomas Soome via oi-dev wrote:
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>> On 28 Sep 2019, at 12:45, Toomas Soome <tsoome at me.com> wrote:
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>>> On 28 Sep 2019, at 12:11, Andreas Wacknitz <A.Wacknitz at gmx.de> wrote:
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>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have updated one of my build servers today and it stopped working after reboot.
>>> I get a black screen (before the bootloader prompt typically is shown). So, my conclusion is that
>>> the bootloader is damaged. I have re-installed OI with Michal's latest text image and after pkg update
>>> the boot fails again.
>>> Has anybody else experienced the same?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Andreas
>>
>> poke me on irc and we can do some diag…
>>
>> rgds,
>> toomas
>>
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> 
> hi!
> 
> As it did turn out, it is not about bootloader being damaged, but installboot doing slightly wrong (updating VBR/PBR while stage2 was not updated). I’ll try to get the fix integrated asap, but for now, the workaround is:
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> after you run pkg update, force update of boot program with:
> beadm mount NEWBE /mnt
> bootadm install-bootloader -f -R /mnt
> 
> Or wait with update till the repo has loader package more recent than
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> Packaging Date: 28 September 2019 at 01:31:17
>            Size: 2.26 MB
>            FMRI: pkg://openindiana.org/system/boot/loader@1.1,5.11-2019.0.0.19070:20190928T013117Z
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> or /boot/gptzfsboot more recent than (use installboot -i /boot/gptzfsboot):
> Extended version string: 1.1-2019.09.20.1
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> I’ll update installboot soon to make such error impossible in future.
> 
> sorry about the mess,
> toomas
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I manually updated our illumos-gate with two loader fixes by Toomas as 
they are not integrated to the gate. This version should work:

   pkg://openindiana.org/system/boot/loader@1.1-2019.0.0.19072

It certainly works for me but I wasn't affected in the first place. If 
someone affected can test it, that would be great.

Michal