Re: Something since June 8th clobbers my disk...

2009-06-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 12:41:55PM -0600, Dan Allen wrote: > > On 11 Jun 2009, at 5:41 PM, Paul B. Mahol wrote: > > >Looks like boot(8) is problematic. > > Okay, here is the June 13th noon update to this problem. > > I once again installed a May 28th build. Rebuilt world and kernel > from so

Re: Something since June 8th clobbers my disk...

2009-06-13 Thread Dan Allen
On 13 Jun 2009, at 2:41 PM, Dan Allen wrote: On 13 Jun 2009, at 12:50 PM, Paul B. Mahol wrote: 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 BI

Re: Something since June 8th clobbers my disk...

2009-06-13 Thread Dan Allen
On 13 Jun 2009, at 12:50 PM, Paul B. Mahol wrote: 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 BINGO! LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT is the culprit. I rebu

Re: Something since June 8th clobbers my disk...

2009-06-13 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 6/13/09, Dan Allen 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 ch

Re: Something since June 8th clobbers my disk...

2009-06-13 Thread Dan Allen
On 11 Jun 2009, at 5:41 PM, Paul B. Mahol wrote: Looks like boot(8) is problematic. Okay, here is the June 13th noon update to this problem. I once again installed a May 28th build. Rebuilt world and kernel from source. Everything works great. No custom kernel, just GENERIC. I then me

Re: Something since June 8th clobbers my disk...

2009-06-13 Thread Dan Allen
On 12 Jun 2009, at 9:50 PM, Yuri Pankov wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:24:42PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Whew!! i'm giving thanks to every saint, god and daemon known. i rebuilt my kernel in very recent days (7.2) on my ancient 500MHz kayak, but did not go further.

Re: Something since June 8th clobbers my disk...

2009-06-13 Thread Kent Stewart
On Saturday 13 June 2009 12:08:17 am Gary Kline wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:24:07PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: > > On Friday 12 June 2009 08:24:42 pm Gary Kline wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:45:01PM -0600, Dan Allen wrote: > > > > On 12 Jun 2009, at 6:32 AM, John Baldwin wrote: >

Re: Something since June 8th clobbers my disk...

2009-06-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:24:07PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Friday 12 June 2009 08:24:42 pm Gary Kline wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:45:01PM -0600, Dan Allen wrote: > > > On 12 Jun 2009, at 6:32 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > > > >On Thursday 11 June 2009 9:33:24 pm Dan Allen wrote: > > >

Re: Something since June 8th clobbers my disk...

2009-06-12 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 12 June 2009 08:24:42 pm Gary Kline wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:45:01PM -0600, Dan Allen wrote: > > On 12 Jun 2009, at 6:32 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > > >On Thursday 11 June 2009 9:33:24 pm Dan Allen wrote: > > Whew!! i'm giving thanks to every saint, god and daemon known. i

Re: Something since June 8th clobbers my disk...

2009-06-12 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:24:42PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:45:01PM -0600, Dan Allen 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 inst

Re: Something since June 8th clobbers my disk...

2009-06-12 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:45:01PM -0600, Dan Allen 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 bui

Re: Something since June 8th clobbers my disk...

2009-06-12 Thread Dan Allen
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

Re: Something since June 8th clobbers my disk...

2009-06-12 Thread Kent Stewart
On Thursday 11 June 2009 06:33:24 pm Dan Allen wrote: > On 11 Jun 2009, at 5:41 PM, Paul B. Mahol wrote: > > Looks like boot(8) is problematic. > > Anything in /etc/src.conf or /etc/make.conf? > > I have never touched or created a src.conf. If there was one there, > it has been unmodified by me. >

Re: Something since June 8th clobbers my disk...

2009-06-12 Thread John Baldwin
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 un

Re: Something since June 8th clobbers my disk...

2009-06-11 Thread Dan Allen
On 11 Jun 2009, at 5:41 PM, Paul B. Mahol wrote: Looks like boot(8) is problematic. Anything in /etc/src.conf or /etc/make.conf? I have never touched or created a src.conf. If there was one there, it has been unmodified by me. I HAVE modified make.conf. Here is its contents: --- /etc/m

Re: Something since June 8th clobbers my disk...

2009-06-11 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 6/11/09, Dan Allen wrote: > Okay. I did a > > make buildkernel && installkernel > > and rebooted, no problems. > > I then did a > > make buildworld > > and rebooted, no problems. > > I then did a > > make installworld > > which completed normally, rebooted, and > > BINGO - my

Re: Something since June 8th clobbers my disk...

2009-06-11 Thread Dan Allen
Okay. I did a make buildkernel && installkernel and rebooted, no problems. I then did a make buildworld and rebooted, no problems. I then did a make installworld which completed normally, rebooted, and BINGO - my disk partition table has been zapped. The problem

Re: Something since June 8th clobbers my disk...

2009-06-11 Thread Dan Allen
In trying to figure this out, I rebuilt a GENERIC kernel after sync'ing to today's RELENG_7 sources. I then installed it, held my breath, and rebooted. It works! So I am now looking at userland (make buildworld && make installworld) to see if it is the culprit. Another possibility is my

Re: Something since June 8th clobbers my disk...

2009-06-11 Thread Dan Allen
On 11 Jun 2009, at 3:40 PM, Paul B. Mahol wrote: Are you using ZFS on root partition? No. The disk is the default (UFS2 I believe). So I just reinstalled BSD again and this time I did not reinitialize the file system and after a brief disk integrity check it reinstalled and files I had

Re: Something since June 8th clobbers my disk...

2009-06-11 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 6/11/09, Dan Allen wrote: > I sync with 7-STABLE almost every day. I build everything on a > Toshiba U205 Satellite. Things are fine for months on end. > > I did this on June 8th. Everything was fine. > > I did this on June 10th. The machine no longer booted. The entire > root partition go