Task: Read an error message lasting only 0.5s between POST & OS loader.
Screenshot it: 🤡
Take a photo with a smartphone: It unreliably spends up to 5s refocusing before snapping a blank screen.
Take a video with a smartphone: The error is too blurry to read, only coming into focus long after it's gone.
Take a photo with a flip phone's potato: It unreliably delays up to 2s.
Break out a 1998 camera that uses an actual floppy disk as film & USB FDD: Success on the very first try!
WAT 💾
#FreeBSD 13.4-RELEASE-p2 amd64 with EFI (pretty sure UEFI), GPT, & encrypted ZFS root, after performing the steps recommended in:
- https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.0R/relnotes/#boot
- https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.1R/relnotes/#boot
- https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.2R/relnotes/#boot
Photographed with a Sony Mavica MVC-FD51, and read in using a SmartDisk FDUSB-TM2.
(The release notes URLs for 13.3-RELEASE and 13.4-RELEASE don't discuss boot loader changes or actions.)
@arielmt we see a gpart bootcode incantation in your future
It's apparently a false positive: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/loader-needs-to-be-updated-14-stable.94857/ #FreeBSD