Subject: Re: New boot blocks recently?
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/28/2003 16:31:24
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 09:35:17PM -0800, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> Has anyone tried the boot blocks recently?  I just built a distribution
> and it fails miserably -- as soon as the boot loader starts to read the
> FFS to get the kernel, I get a spontaneous reboot.  PXE boot seems to be
> OK.  I wonder if the 64-bit daddr_t changes broke something?
> 
> Problem happens both on the floppy sets as well as the installed boot
> blocks.

It runs out of stack, and into BSS. PR 19815 has a solution for this,
hence I'm Cc-ing David.

- Frank

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Frank van der Linden                                    fvdl@wasabisystems.com
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