Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 23:23:54 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AlphaServer 4100 boot/install problem Message-ID: <200108130623.f7D6Ns203390@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Aug 2001 08:15:21 %2B0200." <20010813081521.A34999@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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> > Please, try using 'more' in the loader to read a large (>8k) text
> > document from somewhere; one of the loader's 4th files would do it. Make
> > sure it looks right.
>
> OK, I tried:
>
> 'more' on src/checksum.md5
>
> I don't see any anomalies in the display of more.
Ok. Next step, put some diagnostics in
sys/boot/common/load_elf.c:elf_loadfile(), every place that it returns
nonzero, print out a unique message. If you can, have a look at the
reason it's returning nonzero and print out the significant items there.
This should help narrow things down a bit further.
--
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rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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