Re: Boot reboot issue after upgrade to 6.4 on amd64

2019-02-11 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Joel Sing wrote: The specific "heap full" issue that can be triggered by using a single large partition is not likely to be at fault here - if you cannot boot the ramdisk (bsd.rd/installer) for 6.3 or 6.4 from a USB key, then something else is presumably up (unless you're actually trying to

Re: Boot reboot issue after upgrade to 6.4 on amd64

2018-11-28 Thread Joel Sing
On Tuesday 27 November 2018 16:07:18 Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi Nick, > > Nick Holland wrote: > > So far, with one or two exceptions, everyone complaining about this has > > a One Big Partition disk layout. A bad idea, not suggested, and I don't > > think you will get much sympathy. > > yes of

Re: Boot reboot issue after upgrade to 6.4 on amd64

2018-11-28 Thread Joel Sing
-- Forwarded message - > > From: Angelo Rossi > > Date: Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 9:31 PM > > Subject: Re: Boot reboot issue after upgrade to 6.4 on amd64 > > To: > > > > > > I agree with you, but it happens, anyway I found a simple tri

Re: Boot reboot issue after upgrade to 6.4 on amd64

2018-11-27 Thread Angelo Rossi
Nov 27, 2018 at 9:31 PM > Subject: Re: Boot reboot issue after upgrade to 6.4 on amd64 > To: > > > I agree with you, but it happens, anyway I found a simple trick to > override the problem: recompile boot changing HEAP_SIZE to 1 MB. > > Angelo > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2018

Fwd: Boot reboot issue after upgrade to 6.4 on amd64

2018-11-27 Thread Angelo Rossi
-- Forwarded message - From: Angelo Rossi Date: Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 9:31 PM Subject: Re: Boot reboot issue after upgrade to 6.4 on amd64 To: I agree with you, but it happens, anyway I found a simple trick to override the problem: recompile boot changing HEAP_SIZE to 1 MB

Re: Boot reboot issue after upgrade to 6.4 on amd64

2018-11-27 Thread Theo de Raadt
I disagree. It is a bootblock bug which should be fixed. A refactoring caused it to use more memory, and there is a problem. I wish everyone would stop making excuses. > On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 11:48:38AM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have a strange and blocking issue af

Re: Boot reboot issue after upgrade to 6.4 on amd64

2018-11-27 Thread Theo de Raadt
It is still a bug which needs fixing. Nick Holland wrote: > On 11/27/18 05:48, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have a strange and blocking issue after upgrade to 6.4 on my x86-64 > > laptop, which was running 6.3 just fine. > > > > I got the bsd.rd kernel, booted it and install

Re: Boot reboot issue after upgrade to 6.4 on amd64

2018-11-27 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Nick, Nick Holland wrote: So far, with one or two exceptions, everyone complaining about this has a One Big Partition disk layout. A bad idea, not suggested, and I don't think you will get much sympathy. yes of course (TM).. I won't get much sympathy, but it is the best set-up for a dual

Re: Boot reboot issue after upgrade to 6.4 on amd64

2018-11-27 Thread Marc Peters
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 11:48:38AM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a strange and blocking issue after upgrade to 6.4 on my x86-64 > laptop, which was running 6.3 just fine. > > I got the bsd.rd kernel, booted it and installed, quick, easy no issue. > Now, if I reboot, the kern

Re: Boot reboot issue after upgrade to 6.4 on amd64

2018-11-27 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/27/18 05:48, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a strange and blocking issue after upgrade to 6.4 on my x86-64 > laptop, which was running 6.3 just fine. > > I got the bsd.rd kernel, booted it and installed, quick, easy no issue. > Now, if I reboot, the kernel will reboot just af

Boot reboot issue after upgrade to 6.4 on amd64

2018-11-27 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi all, I have a strange and blocking issue after upgrade to 6.4 on my x86-64 laptop, which was running 6.3 just fine. I got the bsd.rd kernel, booted it and installed, quick, easy no issue. Now, if I reboot, the kernel will reboot just after having written the first line of numbers on the sc