John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org> wrote in <200912020948.05698....@freebsd.org>:
jh> On Tuesday 01 December 2009 12:13:39 pm Hiroki Sato wrote: jh> > While the "load" command seemed to finish, the box got stuck just jh> > after entering "boot" command. jh> > jh> > Curious to say, I have got this symptom only on a specific box in jh> > more than ten different boxes I upgraded so far; it is based on an jh> > old motherboard Supermicro P4DPE[*]. jh> > jh> > [*] http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/E7500/P4DPE.cfm jh> > jh> > Any workaround? Booting from release CDROMs (7.2R and 8.0R) also jh> > fail. On the box "7.1R" or "7.1R's loader + 7.2R kernel" worked jh> > fine. It is possible something in changes of loader(8) between 7.1R jh> > and 7.2R is the cause, but I am still not sure what it is... jh> jh> It may be related to the loader switching to using memory > 1MB for its jh> malloc(). Maybe try building the loader with 'LOADER_NO_GPT_SUPPORT=yes' in jh> /etc/src.conf? Thanks, a recompiled loader with LOADER_NO_GPT_SUPPORT=yes' displayed "elf32_loadimage: could not read symbols - skipped!" for 8.0R kernel. This is the same as 7.1R's loader + 8.0R kernel case. -- Hiroki
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