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Date:      Wed, 8 Aug 2001 15:00:16 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        tlambert2@mindspring.com, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: problems creating 4.4-alpha test/release cdrom
Message-ID:  <20010808150016.A4739@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <200108080935.f789ZUZ01657@mass.dis.org>; from msmith@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 02:35:30AM -0700
References:  <20010807202824.C910@freebie.xs4all.nl> <200108080935.f789ZUZ01657@mass.dis.org>

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On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 02:35:30AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
> > >  - 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(

Hmm. Any specifc routines you want watched?

> > 
> > Starts to smell like mkisofs.
> 
> Well, maybe.  Except that you can read the CD well enough to get the 
> kernel off it.

Very true. Up to the point I could read the kernel from the CD onto
the HD and boot it there without problems.

> 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)

he ;-) CDRW...

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