Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2015 09:56:26 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk> Cc: sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trying to cross-build FreeBSD 10 release ISOs for sparc64 Message-ID: <20150906095626.GA50266@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <53F87DC9.9020800@ilande.co.uk> References: <53F87DC9.9020800@ilande.co.uk>
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On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 12:40:57PM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > While the output ISOs are generated, they appear to be invalid (or at > least OpenBIOS can't find a valid partition on them). Reviewing the > logs, the entire build process seems to work all the way up to the point > where the ISOs are generated which looks like this: > > [...] > gpart: scheme 'VTOC8': Invalid argument > gpart: No such geom: md0. > gpart: No such geom: md0. > > Superficially it looks as if gpart can't understand the partitioning > scheme used for sparc64 ISOs but does anyone else have any ideas as to > why this isn't working? I'm trying to test the patch in https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2791, and today had encountered exactly this problem with "scheme 'VTOC8': Invalid argument" of gpart(8). Quick googling had revealed [1] that it might happen due to endianess being different on i386 (host) and sparc64 (target). I'll need to have a closer look at gpart(8) sources to know better about it, but trying to make sparc64 iso-image on big-endian PowerPC allowed to create VTOC8 scheme and produce bootable images. ./danfe [1] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2013-February/249013.html
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