Fresh Installation Failure With Swap Partition

[maxsteciuk]

Multiple attempts to configure fresh full disk installation with Swap partition led the overall installation failure. Several values for Swap partition were tested: 520 MB, 1024 MB, 2055 MB. The log indicates the ZFS import trident showing exit error code 1.

pc-sysinstall.log log error message:

cannot import 'trident': invalid vdev configuration

EXITERROR: Error 1: zpool -f -N trident

[RodMyers]

RC3, clean install on a 2nd Gen X1 carbon. Swap file created just fine

[maxsteciuk]

UPDATE:

The following workaround steps worked for :

1. Clean drive completely as follows:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ada1 bs-16M

2. Go to installer
3. Add swap partition

Bottom line:
Either installer can add this step as a hack, underlying FreeBSD gpart or ZFS utils should purge disk more cleanly

[RodMyers]

gpart show
=> 40 468862048 ada0 GPT (224G)
40 204800 1 efi (100M)
204840 466538496 2 freebsd-zfs (222G)
466743336 2097152 3 freebsd-swap (1.0G)
468840488 21600 - free - (11M)

using the RELEASE ISO

[maxsteciuk]

As per comment above it’s kind of fixed , since prerelease

[RodMyers]

I know have close access. forgot who I talked to earlier

thank you