Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:50:10 GMT From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/124317: [boot] CD with BTX 1.02 fails at "mountroot" and 1.01 is OK [regression] Message-ID: <200903192050.n2JKoAdP022316@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR i386/124317; it has been noted by GNATS. From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: bug-followup@freebsd.org, comcast.net@peter.brewster Cc: Subject: Re: i386/124317: [boot] CD with BTX 1.02 fails at "mountroot" and 1.01 is OK [regression] Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:25:22 -0400 If the system loads the kernel, then BTX is not the issue. The question is what is the install CD intending to load as the root filesystem? Is it trying to load a memory filesystem and that is failing? You'd need to examine the messages from the loader itself to see if mfsroot is failing to load. There have been some reported problems with gunzip of mfsroot's failing because the loader has grown over time and the stack and heap have started growing into each other. I MFC'd some changes to 6.x and 7.x today that move the heap to prevent this. Those have fixed the other reported issues, so if this one turns out to be a problem with the mfsroot failing to load then that might explain this issue as well. -- John Baldwin
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