On Thursday 03 December 2009 5:29:13 am Hiroki Sato wrote: > 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.
Can you get the output of 'smap' from the loader? Is the 8.0 kernel bigger than the 7.x kernel? If so, can you try trimming the 8.0 kernel a bit to see if that changes things? -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ 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"
