not Evander SinqueIt seems, FreeBSD can't BIOS-boot boxes with too many drives. Is this a known issue in the FreeBSD bootloader? I kinda have to "hide" drives from the BIOS in order to make FreeBSD boot. Trying to boot with 36 disks looks like this: https://ln.tc/s/20260409-105240_2026-04-09-105233_786x456_scrot.png #FreeBSD #bootloader
for clarification: this is a box with 2xSSDs + 34xHDDs, all running ZFS. The SSDs are one pool and the HDDs are one pool. My suspicion is that the bootloader tries to find boot info on all drives and then somehow chokes. On systems where only the HDDs are connected to an HBA, we can simply disable the BIOS exposure of the HDDs altogether, but in this case, all drives are connected to the same HBA.