Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 08:15:21 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AlphaServer 4100 boot/install problem Message-ID: <20010813081521.A34999@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <200108112036.f7BKaOb01384@mass.dis.org>; from msmith@FreeBSD.ORG on Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 01:36:24PM -0700 References: <20010811101541.F20950@freebie.xs4all.nl> <200108112036.f7BKaOb01384@mass.dis.org>
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On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 01:36:24PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
> > > > ok load /kernel
> > > > don't know how to load module '/kernel.ko'
> > > >
> > > > This smells an awful lot like too much got MFC'ed.
> > >
> > > Are we talking just cdboot? Or loader in general?
> > >
> > > As one datapoint, I built/installed a world cvsup'ed
> > > at 9:53am EDT today, and am seeing no problems with /boot/loader
> > >
> > > Perhaps one of the many forth files that doesn't get installed every
> > > time is to blame.
> >
> > Did you boot from CD?
>
> Did anyone read my bloody reply to Terry on this topic?
>
> The problem here is that what the loader is reading out of the file is
> wrong. The ELF code in the loader is rejecting the read data. Wilko has
> confirmed that the CD itself is fine.
>
> Huston, we have a loader filesystem problem...
>
> Please, try using 'more' in the loader to read a large (>8k) text
> document from somewhere; one of the loader's 4th files would do it. Make
> sure it looks right.
OK, I tried:
'more' on src/checksum.md5
I don't see any anomalies in the display of more.
ok ls -l src
src
15344 CHECKSUM.MD5
772 INSTALL.SH
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