From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 19 12:15:33 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A252116A403; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:15:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danny@cs.huji.ac.il) Received: from cs1.cs.huji.ac.il (cs1.cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4145843D4C; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:15:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danny@cs.huji.ac.il) Received: from pampa.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.80.32]) by cs1.cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp id 1GPeVg-000HUx-46; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:15:32 +0300 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:01:58 +0300 . Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:15:32 +0300 From: Danny Braniss Message-ID: Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: 6.2/pxe blues, was Re: pxe boot size limit? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:15:33 -0000 > it seems that pxeboot has a limit with respect to the kernel size, > which prevents the kernel to get loaded, the error printed is > slightly misleading. > > the solution is to make a kernel with loadable modules, instead of > compiled in. not entirely true :-( but changing kernel size has different results. kernel is 6.2-PRERELEASE. hosts are 64bits: 1 - amd Athlon dual core - nic is em 2 - intel Xeon dual core - nic is bc 3 - intel Pentium 4 K8 - nic is bge 1 & 3 are now booting, but 2 is panics with: /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x430118 data=0x79450+0x3ccf0 syms=[0x8+0x73278+0x8+0x62861] panic: free: guard1 fail @ 0x7c6fe from /r+d/6.2/src/lib/libstand/ufs.c:699 a slightly older kernel, and bigger, boots just fine. booting from local disk is also ok. so, what is causing pxeboot to fail?