Re: Has anyone been able to actually boot the AMD64 kernel after r194958?

Thomas Backman wrote:
> On Jul 1, 2009, at 04:23 PM, Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote:
>
>> Hi Current,
>>
>>    I was wondering.. Has anyone actually been able to boot a kernel 
>> after r194958? On 2 different machine (simmilar archecture) the 
>> system will kernel-trap right after attemping to mount the ZFS 
>> filesystems. I dont know if it is ZFS related or not as I am not able 
>> to get a core. It complains that no dump device has been defined and 
>> then locks up...
>>
>>    If there is a way that I can provide more information, please let 
>> me know how and I will post it.
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Peg
> I tried this after reading this thread, and no problems whatsoever. 
> gptzfsboot.
>
> [root_at_clone ~]# uname -a
> FreeBSD clone.exscape.org 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #3 r195244M: 
> Wed Jul  1 23:03:10 CEST 2009     
> root_at_clone.exscape.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DTRACE  amd64
> [root_at_clone ~]# df -h
> Filesystem                       Size    Used   Avail Capacity  
> Mounted on
> rpool                            7.5G    461M    7.0G     6%    /
> devfs                            1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
> rpool/tmp                        7.0G     10M    7.0G     0%    /tmp
> rpool/usr                        9.3G    2.2G    7.0G    24%    /usr
> rpool/usr/ports                  7.2G    199M    7.0G     3%    
> /usr/ports
> rpool/usr/src                    7.5G    434M    7.0G     6%    /usr/src
> rpool/var                        7.1G    104M    7.0G     1%    /var
> rpool/var/crash                  7.0G      0B    7.0G     0%    
> /var/crash
>
>
> Regards,
> Thomas
With you saying this, I decided to try GENERIC kernel configuration and 
that builds and runs just fine. I suspect that Peg and myself have 
something in our kernel conf files that is causing an issue. I'll have a 
go later on and see if I can narrow it down a little bit more

Paul


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