From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Nov 4 4:12:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF5C937B401; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 04:12:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A9B543E7B; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 04:12:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA4CCAkF028095; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 13:12:10 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gA4CCA3q028090; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 13:12:10 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 13:12:10 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Ruslan Ermilov , kan@freebsd.org Cc: Peter Jeremy , freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Borked loader Message-ID: <20021104131210.A28067@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20021104053230.GA75624@server.c18609.belrs1.nsw.optusnet.com.au> <20021104063526.A25514@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20021104115014.GA51083@sunbay.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20021104115014.GA51083@sunbay.com>; from ru@freebsd.org on Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 01:50:14PM +0200 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.7-RC X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org 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 On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 01:50:14PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 06:35:26AM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:32:30PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > > > I'm trying to upgrade a 6-month old -stable on an AlphaServer 400 to > > > -stable from yesterday but the new /boot/loader dies. I've looked at > > > changes since then but nothing seems to affect the loader. > > > > > > The new world was cross-built on a x86 box. This is the first time > > > I've done that, so it could theoretically be a problem with cross- > > > building but I'd need another day to build world on as AS400. I've > > > repeated the cross-build and got a /boot/loader that is identical > > > apart from the build time. > > > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > IIRC x-building on x86 for alpha has been giving loader problems before. > > ru@ has been using my DS10 for some testing but I don't recall if > > it was fixed. > > > > Ruslan, any suggestions? > > > No, I've been looking at different things at the time -- cross-compiling > i386 on either Alpha or sparc64 doesn't work due to some issues with GCC > configured to cross-build i386 (it sometimes produces different asm code > than native compiler). I've reported this on current@ several times but > our GCC maintainers indicated no interest to look into this. :-( Ah, at least good to know my memory still works OK ;) Maybe our new gcc maintainer Alexander Kabaev (kan@freebsd.org) has more time than David? Might be worth asking. Wilko -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message