From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 30 14:26:48 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 594D0106568A for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:26:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kjblack@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.224]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BE7A8FC21 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:26:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kjblack@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so1580748rvf.43 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:26:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=QPWQsC2xYAtb7mm1u0dWXHutBQhwUXpUeqmjuMMXAOA=; b=CXP4b+dHiYup1PltNdt+Qvg1SPCHOf3W3uRhTPU7o8xNBgKlntn0eYHBSqi2M8xI3y rqCe/hUp+RIG83klcpjb3Wg5H8GAOQ7utU35KNjw25BAUwKocCfVYuWUhs3uKKQexzmC EHKkQC8+ww5V9LgzY9b/zTPXCSGZrvqk4pks4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=b1zYlsQdwr09/alJxZjrZ2As5VA9gRqLVAGk9OZgIeZgSFntp+fON75c2QjIaaTJfP NhoTCVB9+GomUEhPG2WdtQCfrrdDCH2d1LB5WeK9B/JQGB6nr9TqFa8bVVMlMSoVDCML nJhHnbF3LiY6ve/7AroA8FXUUq4NDgau7Iqcg= Received: by 10.140.163.12 with SMTP id l12mr2669452rve.137.1214836006158; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:26:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.136.10 with HTTP; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:26:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1b1b33f10806300726w6fc7098ajab9756a701f0d29f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:26:46 -0400 From: "Kelly Black" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20080627120023.23A0C1065766@hub.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080627120023.23A0C1065766@hub.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd-stable Digest, Vol 258, Issue 5 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:26:48 -0000 On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 8:00 AM, wrote: > Message: 5 > Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:54:41 -0700 > From: Jeremy Chadwick > Subject: Re: Problem with /boot/loader > To: Kelly Black > Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, jhb@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <20080626195441.GA2608@eos.sc1.parodius.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 02:34:44PM -0400, Kelly Black wrote: >> >On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Kelly Black wrote: >> >> I have a problem with loader. I recently upgraded from 6_rel to 7_rel. >> >> Now when I install world there is a problem booting. >> >> >> >> Here is what I do: >> >[snip] >> >> Now when I reboot there is a problem. I get an error that the system >> >> cannot boot. Part of it looks like this: >> >> Can't work out which disk we are booting from. >> >> Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes, defaulting to disk0: >> >> >> >> If I boot from a live disk and replace /boot/loader with >> >> /boot/loader.old it boots up fine and everything looks good. A new >> >> world and a new kernel. I would be grateful for any help or any >> >> pointers. >> > >> >What do you have in /etc/make.conf? I recall there being a point in >> >time where incorrect CFLAGS options could build a broken loader. >> > >> >Try renaming /etc/make.conf (or just commenting out all >> >CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS options) and rebuilding either just the loader or the >> >whole world, and see if that makes a difference. >> >> Hello, >> >> Thank you for the reply. I put my make.conf file back to its default >> when I first did the upgrade to avoid other kinds of problems: >> >> make.conf >> # added by use.perl 2008-04-07 11:54:35 >> PERL_VER=5.8.8 >> PERL_VERSION=5.8.8 >> >> And it still produced the loader that does not load. > > Kelly, > > A couple things: > > I'm wondering if you're getting bit by changes made to loader(8) by John > Baldwin last year. Those changes were positive and increased > compatibility with systems greatly, but there were a couple reports of > users whose systems preferred the old "method" used. Those changes are > documented here; and yes, I realise you don't get a screen full of > continual register dumps, but different people saw different behaviour: > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/Commonly_reported_issues > > Also see these mailing list threads: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-October/078755.html > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-November/038214.html > > Secondly, you said you migrated from "6_rel to 7_rel". Do you mean > 7.0-RELEASE, or are you referring to the RELENG_7 tag? What tag are you > following when doing csup/cvsup? > > CC'ing John as well. > > -- > | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | > | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | > | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | > | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | > > > Hello, Sorry for the delay in reporting back. I have the following line in my cvsup,.conf file: *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7 I have a copy of my cvsup conf file at http://blackk.union.edu/~black/freebsd/raging/cvsup.conf I had a /boot.conf file that contained "-D" I deleted the file and tried to boot with the new /boot/loader with no luck. When I copied the old /boot/loader it came up fine. The system is i386. I have a copy of my kernel config file at http://blackk.union.edu/~black/freebsd/raging/BLACK I tried to do dmesg and make it available, but it gives me this message: calcru: runtime went backwards from 331 usec to 327 usec for pid 0 (swapper) Sincerely, Kel -- _______________________________________________________ Kelly Black Phone: (518) 388-8727 Department of Mathematics FAX: (603) 388-6005 Union College e-mail: kelly.black@union.edu Schenectady NY 12308 (USA) WWW: http://blackk.union.edu/~black