Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 03:10:41 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Michael Class <michaelc@hpbbse.bbn.hp.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with 3-stage bootloader Message-ID: <199810041010.DAA03555@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 04 Oct 1998 11:21:45 %2B0200." <Pine.HPP.3.94.981004112111.21393A-100000@hpbbse.bbn.hp.com>
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> Hello, > > I was just trying to use the new 3-stage bootloader. > It failed for my setup. To me it looks like it will only work, > if the FreeBSD slice is the first in the partition-table of a disk. > I can make it to work with the following patch (not meant as a > correct solution, but to give you an idea, of what the reason for > the failure is). Basically only the first slice-table entry is copied, > but afterwards the code assumes that all 4 entries are in memory. Thanks; I just fixed this. > After this patch I can boot an aout-kernel on my machine. Unfortunately > I am still failing on an ELF-Kernel. I get immediately dropped in the > debugger, but a stacktrace gives only garbage back. I think this is fixed too - try initialising ssym and esym to 0 in elf_exec and see if that helps. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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