On Monday 04 February 2008 14:37:44 Oliver Fromme wrote: > Nikolay Pavlov wrote: > > While building 7.0-RC1 i've discovered that the loader file is broken > > in my box and i am unable to boot using it. I've already hit this > > problem 2 months ago. After playing a bit i've found the way on how > > to reproduce it easily: > > > > ~# cd /usr/src/sys/boot/i386 > > /usr/src/sys/boot/i386# make btx libi386 loader > > I'm afraid I can't reproduce it. I've tried the exact same > command, and it built a working loader for me. Are you > building on i386 or amd64? They use the same i386 loader, > but there are slight differences in the build process. Thanks for response Oliver. I am very confused about this problem. It looks very stupid, but i am completely unable to build a working loader on that box. This is amd64 with GENERIC kernel and without any compiler flags in make.conf. > > Note that your command does not build ficl nor libstand, > both of which are required for the loader. Did you build > them before? (However, you should get an error message > if one of them is missing.) No i do not see any errors even with pure /usr/obj > > A simple way to check is to use this command: > strings loader | grep /src/ > Compare the output for the working and the non-working > loader. > > > [...] > > client: fmt=elf size=283b0 text=22038 data=4248 bss=60b8 entry=0 > > Mine looks like this: > > client: fmt=elf size=3b3b0 text=342d8 data=5248 bss=60d8 entry=0 > > Clearly your loader.bin ELF binary (called "client" in BTX > terms) is much smaller. Something must be missing. Yes you are right: root_at_cassini:~# diff -u loader.good loader.bad --- loader.good 2008-02-04 10:46:44.000000000 +0200 +++ loader.bad 2008-02-04 10:47:02.000000000 +0200 _at__at_ -12,22 +12,6 _at__at_ /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/../../common/bcache.c /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/../../common/isapnp.c /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/../../common/pnp.c -/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/../../common/interp_forth.c -/usr/src/sys/boot/ficl/loader.c -/usr/src/sys/boot/ficl/stack.c -/usr/src/sys/boot/ficl/ficl.c -/usr/src/sys/boot/ficl/dict.c -/usr/src/sys/boot/ficl/i386/sysdep.c -/usr/src/sys/boot/ficl/words.c -/usr/src/sys/boot/ficl/tools.c -/usr/src/sys/boot/ficl/search.c -/usr/src/sys/boot/ficl/vm.c -/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/libi386/bootinfo32.c -/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/libi386/bootinfo.c -/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/libi386/biossmap.c -/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/libi386/biospnp.c -/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/libi386/biosdisk.c -/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/libi386/devicename.c /usr/src/lib/libstand/splitfs.c /usr/src/lib/libstand/ext2fs.c /usr/src/lib/libstand/dosfs.c Than it look like Makefile is wrong, because i do not get any errors during the building process. > > You can also check and compare the link commands (that's > the last "cc" command in the make process, only a few lines > above the snippet that you posted). Mine looks like this: > > cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -DLOADER_NFS_SUPPORT -DBOOT_FORTH > -I/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/../../ficl > -I/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/../../ficl/i386 -DLOADER_GZIP_SUPPORT > -I/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/../../common -I. -Wall > -I/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/.. > -I/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/../btx/lib -ffreestanding > -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -mno-mmx -mno-3dnow -mno-sse -mno-sse2 > -mno-sse3 -static -Ttext 0x0 -nostdlib -o loader.sym > /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/../btx/lib/crt0.o main.o conf.o > vers.o boot.o commands.o console.o devopen.o interp.o interp_backslash.o > interp_parse.o ls.o misc.o module.o panic.o load_elf32.o > load_elf32_obj.o reloc_elf32.o load_elf64.o load_elf64_obj.o > reloc_elf64.o bcache.o isapnp.o pnp.o interp_forth.o > /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/../../ficl/libficl.a > /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/../libi386/libi386.a -lstand > > If you're on amd64, there should be additional options > "-m32 -march=i386 -m elf_i386_fbsd", but other than that > it should look exactly the same. > > Best regards > Oliver -- ====================================================================== - Best regards, Nikolay Pavlov. <<<----------------------------------- ======================================================================Received on Mon Feb 04 2008 - 12:26:19 UTC
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