Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:34:14 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Dan Allen <danallen46@airwired.net> Cc: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com>, FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Something since June 8th clobbers my disk... Message-ID: <20090613223414.GA28195@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <F22F8878-DD86-48F9-9563-72ABBE4766F2@airwired.net> References: <212AA509-6A5D-4D43-8B02-A31E636A8D40@airwired.net> <3a142e750906111641w73d991a7ld22ff9a9150404e0@mail.gmail.com> <F22F8878-DD86-48F9-9563-72ABBE4766F2@airwired.net>
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On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 12:41:55PM -0600, Dan Allen wrote: > > On 11 Jun 2009, at 5:41 PM, Paul B. Mahol wrote: > > >Looks like boot(8) is problematic. > > Okay, here is the June 13th noon update to this problem. > > I once again installed a May 28th build. Rebuilt world and kernel > from source. Everything works great. No custom kernel, just GENERIC. > > I then merged in just /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/libi386 changes to June > 10th. Rebuilt in /usr/src/sys/boot and installed it, no problem. > > Then I merged in the latest from /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader, > rebuilt, installed, and BOOM. DEATH TO DRIVE. Disk label GONE > again. Hangs after "BIOS drive C: is disk1" at boot. Does not get to > memory check, let alone to the "Welcome to FreeBSD and choose a boot > option" screen. > > CULPRIT REVEALED: > So, there is only one file change in /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader > from June 8th to June 10th, which kills my machine very repeatably, > and that is the Makefile. > > Something in /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/Makefile is killing my drive. > > What do I try next? > > Thanks for the help. > > Dan I just checked the timestamped on my ....i386/loader/Makefile. The CVS/RCS v that may show you something is from 07jun09: 1.85.2.4 and if you find what changed between your working build on 28may and failing build, that might isolate it. just my dime's worth :-) gary > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- 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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