Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 14:33:22 -0400 From: Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PLEASE REVIEW: loader fix for gzipped kernels Message-ID: <20010829143322.A43833@electricjellyfish.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010829112720.jdp@polstra.com>; from jdp@polstra.com on Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 11:27:20AM -0700 References: <XFMail.010829112720.jdp@polstra.com>
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On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 11:27:20AM -0700, John Polstra wrote: > I would appreciate another pair of eyes on the attached patch before > I commit it. > > I have been working with gzipped kernels a lot lately, and have > noticed that when the loader tries to load certain kernels, it fails > with the message "elf_loadexec: cannot seek". I tracked this down to > a bug in "src/lib/libstand/lseek.c", which is fixed by this patch. so that's why the -CURRENT snapshot i was trying to install last night refused to boot... exactly that error. damn that was irritating me. i thought i was getting a corrupt iso image or something. -- garrett rooney Unix was not designed to stop you from rooneg@electricjellyfish.net doing stupid things, because that would http://electricjellyfish.net/ stop you from doing clever things. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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