Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 13:14:43 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> To: tejblum@arc.hq.cti.ru (Dmitrij Tejblum) Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern.bootfile... Message-ID: <199906081914.NAA30292@panzer.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: <199906081902.XAA35913@arc.hq.cti.ru> from Dmitrij Tejblum at "Jun 8, 1999 11:02:56 pm"
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Dmitrij Tejblum wrote...
> > Well, here's what happens with that patch:
> >
> > {subway:/usr/home/ken:2:0} sysctl -a |grep kernel
> > kern.bootfile: //kernel.test
> >
> > netstat, etc., works okay, probably because the leading slash is discarded.
> >
> > And here's what happens without the patch, when kernel.test2 is booted:
> >
> > {subway:/usr/home/ken:1:0} sysctl -a |grep kernel
> > kern.bootfile: /kernel
>
> Uh, I am even more confused. When I tried to use bootinfo.booted_kernel to get
> the
> name of the kernel, it did contain only the last component and didn't contain
> any
> slash. I have had a code that deal with all the cases I could imagine, but
> decided
> to not commit it as it looks too large for such a simple job.
>
> >
> > Could it have something to do with the boot loader? /boot/loader is from
> > my buildworld on Saturday, but one thing I've noticed is that the text that
> > comes up before the boot loader prompt ("FreeBSD/alpha SRM disk boot,
> > Revision 0.1") is dated September, 1998. So it sort of seems like
> > /boot/loader may not be what is used here..
>
> Perhaps. It seems like boot1 used /boot/boot2 at some point. I don't have this file
> here :-).
Hmm, I think that explains it:
{subway:/boot:3:130} ls -la
total 326
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Jun 5 23:26 ./
drwxr-xr-x 18 root wheel 1024 Jun 8 12:27 ../
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 7352 Jun 5 23:25 boot1*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 82432 Sep 24 1998 boot2*
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 26 15:24 defaults/
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 97608 Jun 5 23:26 loader*
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 9916 Apr 22 14:07 loader.help
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 117232 Jun 5 23:26 netboot*
boot2 is from last September. I just did a 'disklabel -B da1' and now
everything works just fine. The unpatched kernel shows the right kernel
name:
{subway:/usr/home/ken:5:0} sysctl kern.bootfile
kern.bootfile: /kernel.test2
On a loader-related note, does anyone have any idea why I can't seem to
type a question mark in the loader? I don't have any problems typing
question marks once FreeBSD is booted, but in the loader, I seem to
always come up with '/', whether or not I hold down the shift key at the
same time..
And another weird thing -- when I do a 'shutdown -h' and drop the machine
(a 433au) into the SRM prompt, all the key mappings seem to be screwed up,
and I can't type anything useful.
Ken
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Kenneth Merry
ken@plutotech.com
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