FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE was released today, and that means it’s time to upgrade 2 of FreeBSD 11.2 machines to this latest version. One of my FreeBSD boxes is a desktop used at work, and the upgrade went well without any issues. In this post, I’m going to document how the upgrade is done on my nas server at home. First ensure that the FreeBSD is up to date: root@nas:~ # freebsd-update fetch src component not installed, skipped Looking up update....
FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE was released a few days ago. This means it’s time to upgrade the FreeBSD running on my nas. For the most part, this was all what I did: After it’s been upgraded, I also need to update the Zpool. Let’s upgrade the zpool as suggested: Next is to update the boot code. If for whatever reason you’re following this step to update zpool (zroot) on your FreeBSD, make sure you know what is your boot disk is....
Recently one of my servers that runs FreeBSD 11.1 keeps hanging on boot. Usually, the 2nd hard reboot will fix it. The root file system on this server is using ZFS and the ZFS pool report it as healthy. So I’ve been reluctant to do anything about it. Until tonight, when I accidentally list the partition of that drive (ada4): Ahh.. [CORRUPT] partition table it seems. I think the reason the server can still boot because GPT keeps the partition tables in two places (yes, one of the more reason to use GPT over MBR)....
One of the disks in my FreeBSD server reported an issue: Jul 14 18:00:56 nas kernel: GEOM: da0: the primary GPT table is corrupt or invalid. Jul 14 18:00:56 nas kernel: GEOM: da0: using the secondary instead -- recovery strongly advised. Jul 14 18:00:56 nas kernel: GEOM: diskid/DISK-67304734999999999999: the primary GPT table is corrupt or invalid. Jul 14 18:00:56 nas kernel: GEOM: diskid/DISK-67304734999999999999: using the secondary instead -- recovery strongly advised....