From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Oct 26 13:19:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB2AF37B479; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 13:19:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13otUP-0007Jx-0Y; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 21:19:06 +0100 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA61534; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 21:23:55 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 21:23:40 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: John Baldwin Cc: Doug Rabson , alpha@freebsd.org Subject: RE: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/alpha/common main.c src/sys/boot/al In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message