Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 13:12:10 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>, kan@freebsd.org Cc: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Borked loader Message-ID: <20021104131210.A28067@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20021104115014.GA51083@sunbay.com>; from ru@freebsd.org on Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 01:50:14PM %2B0200 References: <20021104053230.GA75624@server.c18609.belrs1.nsw.optusnet.com.au> <20021104063526.A25514@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20021104115014.GA51083@sunbay.com>
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On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 01:50:14PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 06:35:26AM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:32:30PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > > > I'm trying to upgrade a 6-month old -stable on an AlphaServer 400 to > > > -stable from yesterday but the new /boot/loader dies. I've looked at > > > changes since then but nothing seems to affect the loader. > > > > > > The new world was cross-built on a x86 box. This is the first time > > > I've done that, so it could theoretically be a problem with cross- > > > building but I'd need another day to build world on as AS400. I've > > > repeated the cross-build and got a /boot/loader that is identical > > > apart from the build time. > > > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > IIRC x-building on x86 for alpha has been giving loader problems before. > > ru@ has been using my DS10 for some testing but I don't recall if > > it was fixed. > > > > Ruslan, any suggestions? > > > No, I've been looking at different things at the time -- cross-compiling > i386 on either Alpha or sparc64 doesn't work due to some issues with GCC > configured to cross-build i386 (it sometimes produces different asm code > than native compiler). I've reported this on current@ several times but > our GCC maintainers indicated no interest to look into this. :-( Ah, at least good to know my memory still works OK ;) Maybe our new gcc maintainer Alexander Kabaev (kan@freebsd.org) has more time than David? Might be worth asking. Wilko -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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