Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:50:23 +0400 From: Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: Dan Allen <danallen46@airwired.net>, "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: <20090613035023.GB1227@darklight.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <20090613032442.GA24933@thought.org> 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> <20090613032442.GA24933@thought.org>
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On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:24:42PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > 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 How do you know it isn't safe? Noone hasn't provided any useful info (debug, revisions where it works and where it doesn't). Yurihome | help
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