Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 16:25:33 -0400 From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/md md.c Message-ID: <20040828202532.GH26424@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> In-Reply-To: <6.1.0.6.1.20040828130357.0387c878@popserver.sfu.ca> References: <200408281954.i7SJsojG018658@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040828195953.GE26424@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <6.1.0.6.1.20040828130357.0387c878@popserver.sfu.ca>
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On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 01:08:30PM -0700, Colin Percival wrote:
> At 12:59 28/08/2004, Ken Smith wrote:
> >On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 07:54:50PM +0000, Ken Smith wrote:
> >> Back out the MFC done as rev 1.127.2.1. It seems to fix the problem of
> >> mdconfig returning before the device's name appears in /dev but it seems
> >> to cause a worse problem. When booting the installation media (CD or
> >> boot floppies) the system hangs after the device probes, at the point
> >> it should be trying to mount a MD-based filesystem as its root filesystem.
> >
> >Colin/Poul-Henning, do you mind checking into why the call to
> >g_waitidle() seems to cause problems using an md device as a root
> >filesystem during install?
>
> I'm guessing that at this point in the boot process, geom
> hasn't reached the stage of being able to look at events
> and do something with them.
>
> I suspect that replacing
> g_waitidle();
> with
> if (sc->type != MD_PRELOAD)
> g_waitidle();
> will fix this problem; I'll test and commit this later.
>
Thanks! Sorry for blind-siding you guys with this but it was getting
in the way of getting BETA2 completed which needed to be based on what's
in RELENG_5. The backout of the MFC seemed like the best way to handle
it. :-(
--
Ken Smith
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