From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Nov 5 2:58:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18D6537B401; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 02:58:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from c18609.belrs1.nsw.optusnet.com.au (c18609.belrs1.nsw.optusnet.com.au [210.49.80.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7E5A43E3B; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 02:58:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from server.c18609.belrs1.nsw.optusnet.com.au (localhost.c18609.belrs1.nsw.optusnet.com.au [127.0.0.1]) by server.c18609.belrs1.nsw.optusnet.com.au (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA5Awid6001498; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 21:58:45 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from peter@server.c18609.belrs1.nsw.optusnet.com.au) Received: (from peter@localhost) by server.c18609.belrs1.nsw.optusnet.com.au (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gA5AwhPt001497; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 21:58:43 +1100 (EST) Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 21:58:43 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy To: Ruslan Ermilov Cc: Wilko Bulte , kan@freebsd.org, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Borked loader Message-ID: <20021105105843.GA1482@server.c18609.belrs1.nsw.optusnet.com.au> References: <20021104053230.GA75624@server.c18609.belrs1.nsw.optusnet.com.au> <20021104063526.A25514@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20021104115014.GA51083@sunbay.com> <20021104131210.A28067@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20021105101728.GA68135@sunbay.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021105101728.GA68135@sunbay.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 12:17:28PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: >On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 01:12:10PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 01:50:14PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: >> > On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 06:35:26AM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: >> > > On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:32:30PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> > > > I'm trying to upgrade a 6-month old -stable on an AlphaServer 400 to >> > > > -stable from yesterday but the new /boot/loader dies. I've looked at >> > > > changes since then but nothing seems to affect the loader. >> > > > >> > > > The new world was cross-built on a x86 box. This is the first time >> > > > I've done that, so it could theoretically be a problem with cross- >> > > > building but I'd need another day to build world on as AS400. I've >> > > > repeated the cross-build and got a /boot/loader that is identical >> > > > apart from the build time. >> > > > >> > > > Any suggestions? >> > > >> > > IIRC x-building on x86 for alpha has been giving loader problems before. >> > > ru@ has been using my DS10 for some testing but I don't recall if >> > > it was fixed. ... >Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 16:46:34 +0300 >From: Ruslan Ermilov >To: David O'Brien , Alexander Kabaev >Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, alpha@FreeBSD.org >Subject: Re: alpha can't cross-compile i386 > >The situation did not change during the last two months, even with >the latest GCC imports. beast.FreeBSD.org still blows up attempting >to build world and kernel for i386: I remember reading that now... However, my problem is the opposite - I'm building on an x86 and trying to install on Alpha. I will try to run the same buildworld on the Alpha and see if I can identify the difference. It might or might not be the same bug. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message