On 20/05/2021 00:13, Michael Gmelin wrote:
On 20. May 2021, at 00:18, Graham Perrin <[email protected]> wrote:
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Given that I upgraded the zpool of a server that boots of a legacy
boot partition, how would the red alert box saying
"Updating UEFI ESP partitions (the partition the firmware boots
from) has changed. SeeBoot Loader Changes
<https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.0R/relnotes/#boot>for important
details."
have caught my attention? No UEFI involved at my end, no zpools
involved in the warning (I noticed the absence of the warning after
running "zpool upgrade", so no harm done, but other users might be
less fortunate).
-m
In a lucky situation: a red alert for changes to something other than
the freebsd-boot partition might, obliquely, cause the reader to wonder
about changes to the freebsd-boot partition that are not classified as
changes for release note purposes :-)
That's with a smile, no personal criticism intended, because I am
<https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=256024#c8> amongst
the people who misinterpreted part of the release notes.
For anyone who's not following that particular bug (for the command, the
action of upgrading a pool), there's a parallel bug for the FreeBSD
Handbook:
255318 – handbook: Document how to update the bootloader
<https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=255318>
Add <https://man.freebsd.org/zpool-upgrade(8)> to the mix.
Eventually we should have a handbook, a manual page and an action that
are reasonably foolproof. Free from fortune, luck, obliqueness and
wonder :-)
