Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:55:00 +0100 From: "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: Kurt Lidl <kurt.lidl@cello.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't boot 9.0-RELEASE on sparc64 Message-ID: <CADGWnjVH-1bcwxmjOPiVZfC1vq=TKEwZz_9NwM-77Qqmo-Wm3Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F149FAE.4090101@cello.com> References: <4F149FAE.4090101@cello.com>
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On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Kurt Lidl <kurt.lidl@cello.com> wrote: > I noted that booting off a cdrom image was broken for the 9.0-RC3 images > as well: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-December/030747.html > > There was no followup. > > I've since managed to netboot that machine from the 9.0 release, and get a > 9.0-STABLE world built and installed onto it. I've managed to source upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0 as well, and found that the 9.0 kernel (/dev/cd0) silently corrupts data when reading from CDROM, while the 8.2 kernel (/dev/acd0) didn't. Not being able to install 9.0 from CDROM is just a consequence of this bug in 9.0's /dev/cd0. There's probably some bug(s) lurking there, that is(are) only triggered on big endian machines. > -Kurt Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/
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