#14475: Boot from VMWare ESXi: PANIC: did not find any boot partitions!
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Reporter: markh | Owner: nobody
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: System/Kernel | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: x86
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Comment (by waddlesplash):
Total guess of what's going on, by reading the code: You have two BFS
partitions, the one from the anyboot and another on a disk. The partition
scanner
(http://xref.plausible.coop/source/xref/haiku/src/system/kernel/fs/vfs_boot.cpp#276)
checks if a partition is bootable by calling IsBootDevice with
strict=false, which returns true, so that function returns true, so the
calling function thinks it's found a boot device and so halts the search.
Then it
http://xref.plausible.coop/source/xref/haiku/src/system/kernel/fs/vfs_boot.cpp#403
calls IsBootDevice now with strict=true, which
http://xref.plausible.coop/source/xref/haiku/src/system/kernel/fs/vfs_boot.cpp#223
probably returns false, and so it doesn't have any partitions.
So there are two potential solutions here:
1) Don't call IsBootDevice with strict=false and then strict=true; pick
one or the other.
2) Don't stop searching for boot partitions after we found one candidate
(unknown performance impact?)
I vote for # 1, but, I'm not an expert here.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/14475#comment:1>
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