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Date:      Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:02:04 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        rank1seeker@gmail.com, Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: BUG: 9.0 stage 2 boot (/boot/boot)
Message-ID:  <201202230802.05083.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120217.074355.853.1@DOMY-PC>
References:  <20120217.074355.853.1@DOMY-PC>

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On Friday, February 17, 2012 2:43:55 am rank1seeker@gmail.com wrote:
> Anyway, after upgrading to 9.0, my USB stick, when created, started to hang 
at stage 2 boot.
> I have a custom setup, where BSD label 'a', has a content of /boot/*
> So when 'a' is being hit by stage 2 boot, there is boot.config waiting for 
it.
> After it reads it and displays it's content, it echos 'No' and hangs.
> 
> I stare at it and can't believe as boot.config's information is correct!
> I hit '?' and it list all files in 'a'.
> Then I simply RE-type what is displayed on screen (content of boot.config -> 
path to loader)
> And loader kicks in!
> 
> I do this a few times more and EACH time I have to RE-type correct info!
> Tested on other machine, same thing.
> 
> However, this same custom layout works for HDD's, but NOT for USB stick.
> 
> I've extracted binary installs of 8.2 and 9.0 R:
> MD5 (8_boot) = adb1e84e96bd434e51cafaaa0ef22584
> MD5 (9_boot) = 40f3f6403ebd5e131259d1336b4b50ad
> 
> Then:
> # gpart bootcode -b 8_boot da0s2
> And sudenly that USB stick boots, without ANY other change!
> Just an "old" stage 2 boot code, from R8 was enough.

Looks like it is thinking that 'kname' is empty.  Ah, I think Roman broke this
in 219186:

 @@ -474,11 +461,7 @@ parse()
 			     ? DRV_HARD : 0) + drv;
 		dsk_meta = 0;
 	    }
-	    if ((i = ep - arg)) {
-		if ((size_t)i >= sizeof(kname))
-		    return -1;
-		memcpy(kname, arg, i + 1);
-	    }
+            kname = arg;
 	}
 	arg = p;
     }

Before it only set kname if it wasn't an empty string.  Now it always sets
kname.  Try this change:

Index: boot2.c
===================================================================
--- boot2.c	(revision 231983)
+++ boot2.c	(working copy)
@@ -457,7 +457,8 @@ parse()
 			     ? DRV_HARD : 0) + drv;
 		dsk_meta = 0;
 	    }
-            kname = arg;
+	    if (*arg != '\0')
+		    kname = arg;
 	}
 	arg = p;
     }

-- 
John Baldwin



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