From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 14 22:38:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82BCE16A4D0 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 22:38:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D86CD43D53 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 22:38:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 9841 invoked from network); 14 Dec 2004 22:38:13 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 14 Dec 2004 22:38:13 -0000 Received: from [10.50.41.243] (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iBEMc411096984; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:38:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: Ken Smith Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:17:38 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <200412071752.iB7Hqs2i095852@repoman.freebsd.org> <200412140016.43009.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20041214194354.GA13448@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> In-Reply-To: <20041214194354.GA13448@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200412141717.38869.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org cc: Wilko Bulte Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/conf GENERIC X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 22:38:14 -0000 On Tuesday 14 December 2004 02:43 pm, Ken Smith wrote: > On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:16:43AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Tuesday 07 December 2004 12:52 pm, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > wilko 2004-12-07 17:52:54 UTC > > > > > > FreeBSD src repository > > > > > > Modified files: (Branch: RELENG_4) > > > sys/alpha/conf GENERIC > > > Log: > > > Nice idea, but no cigar: bge(4) makes the bootfloppy overflow, so > > > loose it from GENERIC again :-( > > > > We should MFC the bits to make the release use splitfs instead. I gave > > ken some rough patches to do that, but I'm not sure how well that worked > > out. > > I cleaned them up a bit and got them to work for as far as they had > been worked on but it's not complete. At this point it seems to split > the kernel up just fine and the resulting floppies read in the kernel > OK. But when the kernel boots it goes looking for its root filesystem > on the floppy that it was last reading from (last kern.flp floppy) and > panic's. So, it's started but needs a bit more work. > > That said we might need to do the work. My test release builds last > week were with NODOC= and I didn't realize we try to put docs into > the mfsroot floppy. A full release build overflows mfsroot now. At > this point it might be either get splitfs to work or ditch the docs > on mfsroot. Opinions? I can't picture someone doing a floppy based > install needing access to docs from inside the install at this point > but ... I'd really like to get splitfs to work actually. Do you have the diff you are using? I can try to hack on it some locally if that will help. Also, if you have the floppy images from your most recent test I might be able to figure out what needs to be fixed on them. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org