From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Aug 8 2:32:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EAD437B405; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 02:32:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f789ZUZ01657; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 02:35:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200108080935.f789ZUZ01657@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Wilko Bulte Cc: Mike Smith , tlambert2@mindspring.com, John Baldwin , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: problems creating 4.4-alpha test/release cdrom In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 07 Aug 2001 20:28:24 +0200." <20010807202824.C910@freebie.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 02:35:30 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > - the file header fails IS_ELF() > > - the file header fails sanity checks It would be good if you could instrument the relevant parts of load_elf.c and build a new cdloader, then re-master the CDROM. I am *guessing* that there is garbage being read from the file. 8( > > Most of this looks like either a cd9660 filesystem bug (quite likely) or > > a burn error (less likely but not impossible). > > Starts to smell like mkisofs. Well, maybe. Except that you can read the CD well enough to get the kernel off it. > Whatever, the mkisofs for the install CDs is RRenabled, for the benefit > of mounting it on a running system. For booting RR is not relevant. Correct. I think that somewhere between the CDROM and the loader the bits are getting mangled. The challenge now is to find out where; I hope you have a stack of blanks. 8) -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message