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Date:      Tue, 3 Oct 2006 15:58:38 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 6.2-PRE /boot/loader
Message-ID:  <200610031558.38557.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061003194855.GB43305@rambler-co.ru>
References:  <20061003164750.GA844@seth.augenstein.ten> <20061003194735.GA43305@rambler-co.ru> <20061003194855.GB43305@rambler-co.ru>

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On Tuesday 03 October 2006 15:48, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 11:47:35PM +0400, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > Hi John,
> > 
> > On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 03:00:40PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 03 October 2006 12:55, Norbert Augenstein wrote:
> > > >     Hi list,
> > > >     i have just updated to 6.2-PRERELEASE and GRUB is unable to use
> > > >     the new /boot/loader. Ending in an endless loop rebooting after
> > > >     selecting FreeBSD.
> > > >     As a workaround it was possible to chainload FreeBSD.
> > > >     Further investigation shows that /boot/loader.old is woking.
> > > > 
> > > >     So what can cause the new loader to fail?
> > > >     I have not set CFLAGS / CPUTYPE in /etc/make.conf
> > > >     
> > > >     No other problems , em device is working fine here:)
> > > 
> > > Talk to ru@ about his changes to make it use high memory by default.
> > > 
> > Do you mean that "my" (uncommitted) changes can cause this or
> > are you trying to say that making it use high and more memory
> > for heap by default would probably be a good idea?
> > 
> Hmm, well.  I forgot that I've already committed them.  But
> it doesn't use high memory by default, only if bzip2 support
> is activated.

I thought you changed that from '#ifdef LOADER_BZIP2_SUPPORT' to '#if 1' in 
your patches so it now always uses high memory?

-- 
John Baldwin



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