Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2014 10:25:00 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Upgrading an i386 machine from amd64. Message-ID: <538B61EC.9000403@mu.org>
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Hello hackers. Is there a way to build on amd64 and then mount over nfs the build and src and installworld from an i386 machine? The problem seems to be that "install" and "strip" and etc are built as amd64 binaries so that the installworld will fail. Below I have a solution I was going to do a blog post about, but then realized maybe I'd be leading people down the wrong path. Can someone verify that I need to use rsync as opposed to installworld for this to work? I have an old i386 based soekris geode box called "soekris": CPU: Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by AMD PCS (499.91-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x5a2 Family = 0x5 Model = 0xa Stepping = 2 Features=0x88a93d<FPU,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,CX8,SEP,PGE,CMOV,CLFLUSH,MMX> AMD Features=0xc0400000<MMX+,3DNow!+,3DNow!> real memory = 536870912 (512 MB) avail memory = 502792192 (479 MB) Building on this machine is difficult because of the speed and lack of space, so I decided to use my more powerful amd64 machine "spigot": CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz (3392.37-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin="GenuineIntel" Id=0x206a7 Family=0x6 Model=0x2a Stepping=7 ... real memory = 17179869184 (16384 MB) avail memory = 16585228288 (15816 MB) FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 4 core(s) x 2 SMT threads So I've built an 10-stable on the amd64 machine using: spigot % TARGET=i386 spigot % make -j24 buildworld spigot % make -j24 buildkernel Works great, I get an i386 object tree under /usr/obj/i386.386/... Then I go to install this over NFS and this is where I get stuck. If I mount the i386 machine like so and install I get errors on libc and other libraries: spigot % mount soekris:/ /usr/soekris spigot % cd /usr/src && make installworld ..... ===> lib/libcrypt (install) install -C -o root -g wheel -m 444 libcrypt.a /usr/soekris/usr/lib install -C -o root -g wheel -m 444 libcrypt_p.a /usr/soekris/usr/lib install -s -o root -g wheel -m 444 -fschg libcrypt.so.5 /usr/soekris/lib install: /usr/soekris/lib/libcrypt.so.5: Input/output error *** Error code 71 Stop. make[5]: stopped in /usr/trees/freebsd.git/lib/libcrypt *** Error code 1 OK, so that doesn't work... Maybe if I mount the amd64 build host under the soekris box, no that breaks because the bootstrap tools (install(1), strip(1)) are built for amd64 so the install fails. So what I finally did on the amd64 box was: spigot % mkdir /use/soekris.local spigot % make installworld DESTDIR=/usr/soekris.local spigot % mount soekris:/ /usr/soekris spigot % rsync -avvH /usr/soekris.local/ /usr/soekris/ That hung at the end forever at the end: var/unbound/ var/yp/ var/yp/Makefile var/yp/Makefile.dist .... but after giving it an hour I just hit ^C and rebooted and everything was more or less fine. Is there a better way to do this? Was the "installworld to NFS" breaking because of NFS bugs? Should I get those to Rick? I'm just confused. -Alfred
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