Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 08:53:02 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: savecore broken because kern.bootfile is set wrong Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011140852590.7791-100000@zeppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.001110172908.jdp@polstra.com>
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Should be fixed. > Savecore isn't working in -current, dying in my case with "read: > invalid argument". (This is on an Alpha -- I don't have an i386 > -current machine to test it on at the moment.) I traced it down to > the fact that getbootfile() is returning "kernel" -- not the full > pathname as the man page promises. This seems to be because the > "kern.bootfile" sysctl variable isn't getting set correctly: > > alpha# sysctl kern.bootfile > kern.bootfile: kernel > > Because I had an old "/kernel" file and savecore runs in "/", it was > finding the wrong kernel. > > This seems to be some sort of coordination problem between the loader > and the kernel and, maybe, the Alpha SRM. Can anybody shed some light > on it? > > Also, in "src/sys/boot/common/boot.c" we still have this: > > static const char *default_bootfiles = "kernel.ko"; > > which isn't right any more. > > John > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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