Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:24:42 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Dan Allen <danallen46@airwired.net> Cc: Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com>, "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Something since June 8th clobbers my disk... Message-ID: <20090613032442.GA24933@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <22FB500C-9655-4702-99B8-F6498DD27E2F@airwired.net> References: <212AA509-6A5D-4D43-8B02-A31E636A8D40@airwired.net> <3a142e750906111641w73d991a7ld22ff9a9150404e0@mail.gmail.com> <B2BA29D4-BEE8-427B-88AB-28775F550BE5@airwired.net> <200906120832.51098.jhb@freebsd.org> <22FB500C-9655-4702-99B8-F6498DD27E2F@airwired.net>
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On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:45:01PM -0600, Dan Allen wrote: > > On 12 Jun 2009, at 6:32 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > > >On Thursday 11 June 2009 9:33:24 pm Dan Allen wrote: > >>Isn't boot part of the kernel build? Why would installing the kernel > >>not cause this problem? > > > >No, sys/boot is built during world. Likely some change in /boot/ > >loader is > >causing your problem. Can you narrow it down to a specific change > >under > >sys/boot? > > Ok. I updated just the one file since it appeared like one of the few > changed files > > /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/libi386/biosdisk.c > > and rebuilt things with > > cd /usr/src/sys/boot; make cleandir obj depend all install > > and it was okay. No problems. > > Then I did sync'd all of the changed files for /usr/src/sys/boot and > my machine is hung again at boot, so we have narrowed it down to > somewhere in /usr/src/sys/boot/. > > Time to reinstall from a DVD and try it with finer granularity. This > will take some time. > > There appears to be only four files that have changed in /usr/src/sys/ > boot from June 8th (all working fine) to June 11th (dead in the > water). They are: > > /usr/src/sys/boot/Makefile > /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/Makefile > /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/libi386/biosdisk.c > /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/Makefile > > I have ruled out bisodisk.c, as stated above. > > That means that the Makefiles are building new stuff that previously > was not built, namely > > zfsboot gptzfsboot > > I believe it has to do with that. More help is needed! I am tired of > reinstalling the OS, but I am much more paranoid about updating my > other machine in any way now, as it could erase that whole machine. I > can't believe I am the only one seeing this... > > Dan > Whew!! i'm giving thanks to every saint, god and daemon known. i rebuilt my kernel in very recent days (7.2) on my ancient 500MHz kayak, but did not go further. So still runing on the 7.0 kernel. Will someone send up a flare when it's *safe*? gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org For FBSD list: http://transfinite.thought.org/slicejourney.php The 4.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
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