Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:20:34 +0200 From: David Naylor <naylor.b.david@gmail.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: boot failed with gzip'ed modules Message-ID: <200804252320.39121.naylor.b.david@gmail.com>
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Hi,
I have a live CD that has a GENERIC kernel and that loads some modules befo=
re=20
booting. They have been gzip'ed to save space however suddenly the booting=
=20
has stopped. The kernel loads and then after the first line of the module=
s=20
to load it stops:
CD Loader 1.2
Building the boot loader arguments
Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... File not found
Looking up /boot/loader... Found
Relocating the loader and the BTX
Starting the BTX loader
BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02
Consoles: internal video/keyboard
BIOS CD is cd0
BIOS drive A: is disk0
BIOS 638kB/260032kB available memory
=46reeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
(DragonSA@dragon, Fri Apr 25 16:40:18 SAST 2008)
Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
/boot/kernel/kernel test=3D0x74bb28 data=3D0xfe590+0xfc4f0=20
syms=3D[0x8+0xc1830+0x8+0xac76c]
/boot/kernel/unionfs.ko |
The current was csup'ed today (a previous system from 13th April worked fin=
e)
My loader.conf:=20
geom_label_load=3D"YES"
geom_uzip_load=3D"YES"
unionfs_load=3D"YES"
zlib_load=3D"YES"
init_script=3D"/chroot"
init_chroot=3D"/base"
and the files:
dragon# cd boot/kernel/
dragon# ls -l
total 4416
=2Dr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8815 Apr 25 17:40 geom_label.ko.gz
=2Dr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4145 Apr 25 17:40 geom_uzip.ko.gz
=2Dr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4425256 Apr 25 17:40 kernel.gz
=2Dr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 19775 Apr 25 17:40 unionfs.ko.gz
=2Dr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 28540 Apr 25 17:40 zlib.ko.gz
(there is a significant saving in size [and a pitty kldload does not like=20
gzip'ed modules... project idea :-) {with possibly other formats, i.e.=20
bzip2?}])
Oh, on an aside. What is the BTX and why is the bootloader i386 even for a=
n=20
amd64 system (I suspect it is because there is no need for an amd64=20
bootloader [unless kernels and modules suddenly exceed 4GB 8-/ ])?
Thank you for your time
David
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