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Date:      Thu, 26 Oct 2000 21:23:40 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Doug Rabson <dfr@freebsd.org>, alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/alpha/common main.c src/sys/boot/al
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010262121160.256-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.001026114827.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, John Baldwin wrote:

> 
> On 25-Oct-00 Doug Rabson wrote:
> > dfr         2000/10/25 16:36:02 PDT
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/boot/alpha/common main.c 
> >     sys/boot/alpha/libalpha start.S 
> >   Log:
> >   Move the call to extend_heap() from main to start so that if our BSS
> >   expands beyond the limit we will extend the address space before trying
> >   to zero the BSS. This should give us plenty of headroom for modest
> >   expansion of the loader.
> 
> My loader still doesn't boot on my Miata. :(  It hangs claiming that it executed
> the HALT instruction (not that it actually died with a stack fault like before
> though):
> 
> ...
> Loading /boot/loader
> /
> halted CPU 0
> 
> halt code = 5
> HALT instruction executed
> PC = 2000a0c0
> boot failure
> >>>

Now that I think about it, its obvious that this is caused by Matt's
change to the load address of /boot/loader which in retrospect was a bad
move since it hoses people who do a 'make world' without
relabelling. Actually we should probably back that out since potentially
many people could lose with that one in a way which is difficult to fix
without a full reinstall.

-- 
Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
					Phone: +44 20 8348 6160




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