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Date:      Thu, 26 Oct 2000 16:21:58 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, mjacob@feral.com, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/alpha/common main.c src/sys/boot/al
Message-ID:  <14840.37396.770392.598849@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010262121160.256-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
References:  <XFMail.001026114827.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010262121160.256-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>

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Doug Rabson writes:
 > 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.

If it is not needed, then I agree.  Its a pita to have to install a
new boot1 each time I try the latest rev of loader..

Drew


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