Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2015 12:59:22 +0100 From: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> Cc: sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trying to cross-build FreeBSD 10 release ISOs for sparc64 Message-ID: <55EC2A9A.9000501@ilande.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20150906095626.GA50266@FreeBSD.org> References: <53F87DC9.9020800@ilande.co.uk> <20150906095626.GA50266@FreeBSD.org>
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On 06/09/15 10:56, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 12:40:57PM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: >> While the output ISOs are generated, they appear to be invalid (or at >> least OpenBIOS can't find a valid partition on them). Reviewing the >> logs, the entire build process seems to work all the way up to the point >> where the ISOs are generated which looks like this: >> >> [...] >> gpart: scheme 'VTOC8': Invalid argument >> gpart: No such geom: md0. >> gpart: No such geom: md0. >> >> Superficially it looks as if gpart can't understand the partitioning >> scheme used for sparc64 ISOs but does anyone else have any ideas as to >> why this isn't working? > > I'm trying to test the patch in https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2791, and > today had encountered exactly this problem with "scheme 'VTOC8': Invalid > argument" of gpart(8). > > Quick googling had revealed [1] that it might happen due to endianess > being different on i386 (host) and sparc64 (target). I'll need to have > a closer look at gpart(8) sources to know better about it, but trying > to make sparc64 iso-image on big-endian PowerPC allowed to create VTOC8 > scheme and produce bootable images. I had exactly the same problem, and eventually John pointed me in the right direction: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-sparc64/2015-June/009606.html If I kldload the geom_part_vtoc8 module then I can build from a cross-compile environment setup on x86 and all is well. HTH, Mark.
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