From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Aug 12 23:20:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 825C737B40E; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 23:20:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7D6Ns203390; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 23:23:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200108130623.f7D6Ns203390@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Wilko Bulte Cc: Mike Smith , Andrew Gallatin , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AlphaServer 4100 boot/install problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 13 Aug 2001 08:15:21 +0200." <20010813081521.A34999@freebie.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 23:23:54 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Please, try using 'more' in the loader to read a large (>8k) text > > document from somewhere; one of the loader's 4th files would do it. Make > > sure it looks right. > > OK, I tried: > > 'more' on src/checksum.md5 > > I don't see any anomalies in the display of more. Ok. Next step, put some diagnostics in sys/boot/common/load_elf.c:elf_loadfile(), every place that it returns nonzero, print out a unique message. If you can, have a look at the reason it's returning nonzero and print out the significant items there. This should help narrow things down a bit further. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message