Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:17:38 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wilko@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/conf GENERIC Message-ID: <200412141717.38869.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20041214194354.GA13448@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> References: <200412071752.iB7Hqs2i095852@repoman.freebsd.org> <200412140016.43009.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20041214194354.GA13448@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>
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On Tuesday 14 December 2004 02:43 pm, Ken Smith wrote: > On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:16:43AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Tuesday 07 December 2004 12:52 pm, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > wilko 2004-12-07 17:52:54 UTC > > > > > > FreeBSD src repository > > > > > > Modified files: (Branch: RELENG_4) > > > sys/alpha/conf GENERIC > > > Log: > > > Nice idea, but no cigar: bge(4) makes the bootfloppy overflow, so > > > loose it from GENERIC again :-( > > > > We should MFC the bits to make the release use splitfs instead. I gave > > ken some rough patches to do that, but I'm not sure how well that worked > > out. > > I cleaned them up a bit and got them to work for as far as they had > been worked on but it's not complete. At this point it seems to split > the kernel up just fine and the resulting floppies read in the kernel > OK. But when the kernel boots it goes looking for its root filesystem > on the floppy that it was last reading from (last kern.flp floppy) and > panic's. So, it's started but needs a bit more work. > > That said we might need to do the work. My test release builds last > week were with NODOC= and I didn't realize we try to put docs into > the mfsroot floppy. A full release build overflows mfsroot now. At > this point it might be either get splitfs to work or ditch the docs > on mfsroot. Opinions? I can't picture someone doing a floppy based > install needing access to docs from inside the install at this point > but ... I'd really like to get splitfs to work actually. Do you have the diff you are using? I can try to hack on it some locally if that will help. Also, if you have the floppy images from your most recent test I might be able to figure out what needs to be fixed on them. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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