From owner-cvs-all Tue Aug 21 23:56:10 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from peter3.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.14.150.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DABCF37B401; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 23:55:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f7M6ttM77531; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 23:55:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C46138FD; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 23:55:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Julian Elischer Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 23:55:55 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20010822065555.9C46138FD@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Julian Elischer wrote: > I think whistle just lost their upgrade path.. > they were loading the loader with the old a.out bootblocks > (4.x based) > assuming nothing changed between then and now it should have worked for > them.. Which bootblocks? sys/i386/boot/biosboot? Or sys/boot/i386/boot2? sys/i386/boot/biosboot is not even in -current. sys/boot/i386/boot2 does both a.out and elf. IMHO, if Whistle are going to go out on a limb with a 5.x release with old bootblocks that are no longer in the tree, I'm sure they can figure out how to change "btxld -f elf" back to "btxld -f aout". I tried this about two weeks ago, on old bootblocks (pre-4.x) and at the boot prompt, "wd(0,a)/boot/loader" was rewarded with "Invalid kernel". Installing /boot/boot2 solved it. I dont know which 2.x bootblocks they were, but they were *not* happy. 3.x and beyond shipped with a.out+elf aware bootblocks. > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: > > > peter 2001/08/21 22:29:25 PDT > > > > Modified files: > > sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile > > Log: > > Generate an ELF /boot/loader instead of fake a.out. The fake a.out wrapp er > > did not work with old a.out-only bootblocks anyway. :-( Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message