From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 6 12:45:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA28404 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 12:45:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA28378 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 12:45:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA00863; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 12:49:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810061949.MAA00863@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Stefan Eggers cc: Mike Smith , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two /boot/loader anomalies In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 06 Oct 1998 21:26:14 +0200." <199810061926.VAA17472@semyam.dinoco.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 12:49:40 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > that the "autoboot 5" I specified in /boot/boot.conf does get executed > > > but has no count down. I have to press ENTER to get it to boot. My > > > You'll get this if the timer isn't working properly. I've seen a > > couple of reports of this, but I haven't been able to reproduce it yet. > > Really strange. The call seems to be correct. :-( I'm working on it at the moment. It doesn't help that I don't know what's wrong. 8( I may have to revert to using the RTC hardware. 8( > > have scads of debugging symbols coming in from there, which will bulk > > the loader image way out. You don't need this (but it makes debugging > > I tried "strip -aout -d" on it which didn't reduce the size. Thus I > thought it would really be that large. And an a.out strip man page I > don't have anymore so have no idea what other options there are for > getting the desired result. Heh. /boot/loader is an a.out file, but the loader itself is ELF, just to really confuse things. The 'loader.bin' file is the ELF object; it gets the btx loader and btx kernel stuck onto it by btxld, which produces an a.out file so that the old bootblocks can load it. (We can do ELF too, but we're not ready for that yet.) 'size' on loader.bin might be more interesting. 8) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message