Re: "bootinfo too big" netbooting amd64-8.0_BETA?

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 27 Jan 2018, John D. Baker wrote:

> What are all those calls with type 4 and type 0 that preceed the first
> module load message?  The pair immediately before each message seems to
> correspond with the module being loaded, but there are as many before
> that as there are modules to be loaded.  That seems suspicious to me.

Type 0 is BTINFO_BOOTPATH and type 4 in BTINFO_NETIF.  Seems like we are 
unnecessarily replicating the path info for each module.  (I would 
expect that you would need only one BTINFO_NETIF regardless of how many 
things you need to load.  But I don't know enough about the boot code, 
especially not about the net-boot stuff to suggest any changes here.)


> I double-checked my amd64/i386 kernels and none elide "options
> SCSIVERBOSE", so that module is built in courtesy of the included GENERIC
> config.  Thus for me the quick fix is to not load the scsiverbose module
> via the bootloader.  I have updated the relevant "boot.cfg" files
> accordingly.

No problem.  I committed the change for 32 --> 64 entries.

I'm glad that you're back up-and-running.


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