Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 20:29:57 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems creating 4.4-alpha test/release cdrom Message-ID: <20010807202957.D910@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <3B6FB526.297EA65D@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 02:30:14AM -0700 References: <200108070845.f778jei09077@mass.dis.org> <3B6FB526.297EA65D@mindspring.com>
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On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 02:30:14AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Mike Smith wrote: > > - the filename is NULL (not possible, since it's printed in the > > diagnostic) > > - the file is too small > > - the file header fails IS_ELF() > > - the file header fails sanity checks > > - the file is not a kernel or a KLD > > > > Most of this looks like either a cd9660 filesystem bug (quite likely) or > > a burn error (less likely but not impossible). > > > > I'd consider starting by seeing what "ls -l" in the loader says about the > > size of the file. > > Isn't this the kernel he was booting fine, on the non-CDROM > version of his system? No, this is the kernel make release created for me. > I've had similar issues with the /boot/kernel/* stuff from > an early 5.x snapshot, when reverting the system back to a > 4.3 based release, when the boot blocks were not replaced > on my hard disk after the upgrade because I didn't boot the > CDROM to do the upgrade (yes, I know I'm describing a 5.x > to 4.x version change as an "upgrade" here: that's the menu > item in sysinstall to make the change). > I think this is also the code that worked fine in the 4.x > case on previous CDROM images for the Alpha... doesn't it > seem more likely that he's just running stale code? I'm running a freshly built make release of RELENG_4 Hardly stale. W/ -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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