Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 23:38:33 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Michael Richards" <michael@fastmail.ca> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot Loader Progress... Message-ID: <200103260738.f2Q7cY601365@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:23:18 EST." <3ABE7DE5.0000ED.48828@frodo.searchcanada.ca>
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> The loader fails when it calls the "include" function to load the
> file: /boot/loader.rc
> I originally thought it was a problem with reading the data, but now
> I believe the call to "open" in the include function in
> common/interp.c is never returning. I am going to descent into the
> depths of libstand to insert debugging and see if I can locate the
> exact point of failure.
Don't bother with libstand, go straight to the libalpha code and see if
we're actually calling the SRM 'open' function more than once. I suspect
that SRM may have issues with that.
> Does anyone have documentation on how to interface with the alpha
> bios to perform low level things such as reading blocks of data? I
> would like to verify that calls are being made properly.
The SRM ("bios") implementations typically have issues that are
interpretation; they comply with the specification, but fail in areas
outside it (since it's pretty vague about some of the assumptions that
one can or can't make).
> Finally, assuming that I do get this problem fixed, is there anyone
> specifically that I should be sending patches to?
As was previously mentioned, the freebsd-alpha list is probably the best
place.
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