From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 14 19:43:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9956116A4CE; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 19:43:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADD5543D48; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 19:43:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU) Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (kensmith@localhost [127.0.0.1]) iBEJhtIo014191; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 14:43:55 -0500 (EST) Received: (from kensmith@localhost) by electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.12.10/8.12.9/Submit) id iBEJhtg8014190; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 14:43:55 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 14:43:55 -0500 From: Ken Smith To: John Baldwin Message-ID: <20041214194354.GA13448@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> References: <200412071752.iB7Hqs2i095852@repoman.freebsd.org> <200412140016.43009.jhb@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200412140016.43009.jhb@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i 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-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 19:43:59 -0000 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 ... -- Ken Smith - From there to here, from here to | kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu there, funny things are everywhere. | - Theodore Geisel |