Re: Boot0cfg bug redux (Re: sys/boot/boot0/boot0.S - r186598)

2011-01-10 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 03:38:23AM +0300, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: > On 11.01.2011 02:33, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > As a consequence, if we reboot without pressing an F-key, the system > > boots from partition s1 even though the boot loader indicates F2. > > > So, to summarize, I guess that a possibl

Re: Boot0cfg bug redux (Re: sys/boot/boot0/boot0.S - r186598)

2011-01-10 Thread Andrey V. Elsukov
On 11.01.2011 02:33, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > As a consequence, if we reboot without pressing an F-key, the system > boots from partition s1 even though the boot loader indicates F2. > So, to summarize, I guess that a possible fix (that does not involve > using gpart, or even worse, modifying boot0.S,

Boot0cfg bug redux (Re: sys/boot/boot0/boot0.S - r186598)

2011-01-10 Thread Luigi Rizzo
In order to understand the bug discussed in the recent thread (original message attached at the end), Tom Judge passed me the dump of the boot sector around the bug. The system giving trouble has the following configuration Fresh transcript: file1: ORIGINAL BOOT SECTOR # boot0cfg -v ad0 #

Re: sys/boot/boot0/boot0.S - r186598

2011-01-10 Thread Tom Judge
On 01/09/2011 04:44 PM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 12:57:24PM -0600, Tom Judge wrote: >> On 09/01/2011 12:33, Luigi Rizzo wrote: >>> On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 12:39:28AM -0600, Tom Judge wrote: Hi, Today I ran into an issue where setting the default slice with boot0cf

Hardclock() not so hard on i386 lately.

2011-01-10 Thread Caza, Aaron
Greetings All, I've been experiencing a problem with the hardclock() call not exhibiting the same determinism in the FreeBSD 8.1 i386 Stable snapshots since November. In the October snapshot and previous releases, instrumenting the hardclock() to count ticks and using a kernel thread to print

Re: sys/boot/boot0/boot0.S - r186598

2011-01-10 Thread Warner Losh
On 01/10/2011 02:27, Daniel Braniss wrote: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --enig0AE178BF2380C8CAA3249E0C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 09/01/2011 04:38, Daniel Braniss wrote: There was a post o

Re: sys/boot/boot0/boot0.S - r186598

2011-01-10 Thread Daniel Braniss
> This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) > --enig0AE178BF2380C8CAA3249E0C > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On 09/01/2011 04:38, Daniel Braniss wrote: > >> There was a post on the embedded list that sugg