On 6/13/09, Dan Allen <danalle...@airwired.net> wrote: > > On 12 Jun 2009, at 6:32 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > >> On Thursday 11 June 2009 9:33:24 pm Dan Allen wrote: >>> Isn't boot part of the kernel build? Why would installing the kernel >>> not cause this problem? >> >> No, sys/boot is built during world. Likely some change in /boot/ >> loader is >> causing your problem. Can you narrow it down to a specific change >> under >> sys/boot? > > Ok. I updated just the one file since it appeared like one of the few > changed files > > /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/libi386/biosdisk.c > > and rebuilt things with > > cd /usr/src/sys/boot; make cleandir obj depend all install > > and it was okay. No problems. > > Then I did sync'd all of the changed files for /usr/src/sys/boot and > my machine is hung again at boot, so we have narrowed it down to > somewhere in /usr/src/sys/boot/. > > Time to reinstall from a DVD and try it with finer granularity. This > will take some time. > > There appears to be only four files that have changed in /usr/src/sys/ > boot from June 8th (all working fine) to June 11th (dead in the > water). They are: > > /usr/src/sys/boot/Makefile > /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/Makefile > /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/libi386/biosdisk.c
I doubt it is loader fault, from your description it appears that loader is never started. Could you try to remove -DLOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT from Makefile? > /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/Makefile > > I have ruled out bisodisk.c, as stated above. > > That means that the Makefiles are building new stuff that previously > was not built, namely > > zfsboot gptzfsboot > > I believe it has to do with that. More help is needed! I am tired of > reinstalling the OS, but I am much more paranoid about updating my > other machine in any way now, as it could erase that whole machine. I > can't believe I am the only one seeing this... > > Dan > > -- Paul _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
