From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 13 18:50:33 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CA98106566B; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:50:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f228.google.com (mail-fx0-f228.google.com [209.85.220.228]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7D4E8FC0A; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:50:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: by fxm28 with SMTP id 28so301344fxm.43 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:50:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Enz37Bwz9T2ULJkm4aHM3fhQlAPUO4/eh47TzUeGbnk=; b=alx/OPbLK5KIzl5w0wUHT3Bah6CdPBXILtJKwRz3/nSNeyHDa6WBqhD3Qbb6WUy2hZ vwSMRobIFwv4Q9WVEKzZ/av17cHtX0O5Yf+jfmeqXggAWf5yXJyxfK3lMEXe4L2KwiqD QVNvtlKZ/iYQOq3/S9jCl93c3B3drVVhoDh2U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=a9SqJaeLA6BO17H7tZQ2oWKW0uR81zTtx49YYPVqoVzFashvnWcKreZgeoLwbmNtXP rOkvuGQFylfE7Plw4sxQ7+WSF915SwAiJQZNolLb8iCUsrbZ3aGd3i15SpKD2+pt/YTb 3/OxSq7pzq0kmnsNB2zlemgKzsdy+eXAXpfhg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.53.10 with SMTP id k10mr5013931bkg.169.1244919031689; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:50:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <22FB500C-9655-4702-99B8-F6498DD27E2F@airwired.net> References: <212AA509-6A5D-4D43-8B02-A31E636A8D40@airwired.net> <3a142e750906111641w73d991a7ld22ff9a9150404e0@mail.gmail.com> <200906120832.51098.jhb@freebsd.org> <22FB500C-9655-4702-99B8-F6498DD27E2F@airwired.net> Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:50:31 +0200 Message-ID: <3a142e750906131150p6e960400o8a42ab4973aa26e@mail.gmail.com> From: "Paul B. Mahol" To: Dan Allen Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Yuri Pankov , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, John Baldwin Subject: Re: Something since June 8th clobbers my disk... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:50:33 -0000 On 6/13/09, 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 I doubt it is loader fault, from your description it appears that loader is never started. Could you try to remove -DLOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT from Makefile? > /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 > > -- Paul