From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 3 13:33:18 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7C2F1065676; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 13:33:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B3FF8FC1B; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 13:33:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5616846B2A; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 08:33:18 -0500 (EST) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (unknown [209.249.190.9]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 3CD008A01B; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 08:33:17 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Hiroki Sato Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 08:03:29 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (FreeBSD/7.2-CBSD-20091103; KDE/4.3.1; amd64; ; ) References: <20091202.021339.237377394.hrs@allbsd.org> <200912020948.05698.jhb@freebsd.org> <20091203.192913.103115892.hrs@allbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20091203.192913.103115892.hrs@allbsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200912030803.29797.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:33:17 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.1 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=4.2 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: loader(8) readin failed on 7.2R and later including 8.0R 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: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:33:18 -0000 On Thursday 03 December 2009 5:29:13 am Hiroki Sato wrote: > John Baldwin wrote > in <200912020948.05698.jhb@freebsd.org>: > > jh> On Tuesday 01 December 2009 12:13:39 pm Hiroki Sato wrote: > jh> > While the "load" command seemed to finish, the box got stuck just > jh> > after entering "boot" command. > jh> > > jh> > Curious to say, I have got this symptom only on a specific box in > jh> > more than ten different boxes I upgraded so far; it is based on an > jh> > old motherboard Supermicro P4DPE[*]. > jh> > > jh> > [*] http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/E7500/P4DPE.cfm > jh> > > jh> > Any workaround? Booting from release CDROMs (7.2R and 8.0R) also > jh> > fail. On the box "7.1R" or "7.1R's loader + 7.2R kernel" worked > jh> > fine. It is possible something in changes of loader(8) between 7.1R > jh> > and 7.2R is the cause, but I am still not sure what it is... > jh> > jh> It may be related to the loader switching to using memory > 1MB for its > jh> malloc(). Maybe try building the loader with 'LOADER_NO_GPT_SUPPORT=yes' in > jh> /etc/src.conf? > > Thanks, a recompiled loader with LOADER_NO_GPT_SUPPORT=yes' displayed > "elf32_loadimage: could not read symbols - skipped!" for 8.0R kernel. > This is the same as 7.1R's loader + 8.0R kernel case. Can you get the output of 'smap' from the loader? Is the 8.0 kernel bigger than the 7.x kernel? If so, can you try trimming the 8.0 kernel a bit to see if that changes things? -- John Baldwin