Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 01:21:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, dcs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Loader badly broken on the alpha Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009180119470.97130-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <200009160120.SAA45920@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
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I think I fixed it- 4KB more stack, 256KB more heap, and shoved the secondary load address down 8KB. This fixes this for now. Definitely a candidate for some rework. I tried some fun and games using the boot1 area (which gets freed anyway) as a stack zone, but that didn't work real well- mostly I just wanted to get this fixed for now. On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > Well, after a rather long and frustrating afternoon, it seems that > revision of the loader after Fri Sep 8 16:30 2000 UTC is broken for > the alpha arch. I've tried to narrow things down to see if it was just > the 4th changes or the pnp changes, but have been unable to get anything > to boot except for a binary and 4th files from that date. I've even > tried removing all of the 4th stuff and /boot/loader.rc and the newer > loader binaries still break. Every time they break, they trigger a > kernel stack not valid fault. My guess is that ficl is recursing in an > infinite loop somewhere, that it is recursing too deeply and using up > all available memory, or that something is failing to handle error conditions > and is dereferencing a NULL pointer. > > -- > > John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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