I can confirm that going back to an older set of bootblocks (prior to gcc 3.4) fixes the problem. In my case, I used bootblocks taken from a fresh install of 5.2.1-RELEASE. I'm in the middle of trying to use PXE to get one of the servers up and working via the same manner, but serial console in the kernel is making it a real pain in the arse... I'll give your patch a try and report back hopefully shortly (sometime in the next few hours, tops). -- | 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. | On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 12:39:49AM +0000, Alexander Kabaev wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 05:14:44PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > Minor typo/clarification: the transition problem lies between boot1 > > and boot2, it seems. > > > > On one of the machines (which uses boot1 across serial console), > > the system reports "Invalid partition" when trying to boot from -- > > and yes, this is not a typo -- 0:ad(0,`). Manually typing in the > > correct device (which is 0:ad(0,a)) causes the machine to spit out > > an exception error and reboot automatically. > > > > Just wanted to clarify on that point. > > > > GCC 3.4 seems to be very likely cause of this problem. I guess your only > option is to get boot2 file from a system which predates GCC 3.4 and > install in on broken boxes. > > I am trying to find the likely cause of this failure. The very first > idea I managed to think of is that your problem is yet another fallout > from new GCC unit-at-a-time optimisation mode. Could you please test > an attached patch and report results here? > > > Index: Makefile > =================================================================== > RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/boot/i386/boot2/Makefile,v > retrieving revision 1.55 > diff -u -r1.55 Makefile > --- Makefile 17 Feb 2004 07:13:03 -0000 1.55 > +++ Makefile 30 Jul 2004 00:31:37 -0000 > _at__at_ -22,6 +22,7 _at__at_ > > CFLAGS= -Os \ > -fno-guess-branch-probability -fomit-frame-pointer\ > + -fno-unit-at-a-time \ > -mno-align-long-strings \ > -mrtd \ > -D${BOOT2_UFS} \ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org"Received on Thu Jul 29 2004 - 23:53:22 UTC
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