BUG: 9.0 stage 2 boot (/boot/boot)

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday, February 28, 2012 3:09:06 pm rank1seeker at gmail.com wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>
> To: rank1seeker at gmail.com
> Cc: hackers at freebsd.org, "Roman Divacky" <rdivacky at freebsd.org>
> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:23:59 -0500
> Subject: Re: BUG: 9.0 stage 2 boot (/boot/boot)
> 
> > On Saturday, February 25, 2012 9:41:48 am rank1seeker at gmail.com wrote:
> > > > Do you only see the "No " message?  Do you see the '/boot.config: /loader'
> > > > message?  (Do you have RBX_QUIET enabled perhaps? (-q))  Do you get the actual
> > > > boot2 prompt at all?
> > > 
> > > I don't have RBX_QUIET enabled nor any other flags
> > > 
> > > Let the pic tell a story:
> > > http://www.starforce.biz/stage2boot.jpg
> > 
> > Ahh, this is helpful.  You do see the '/boot.config: /loader' message.
> 
> I've already explained that, numerous times (RE-typing ...)

It was not as obvious before, and you are seeing a failure that no one else
has reported, so you need to be patient.

> > > Patch eliminates possible error, of manual "intervention"
> > > That is, a perfectly valid patch being classified as invalid.
> > 
> > I have no idea what you mean here.  However, it seems you don't have junk in
> > your 'opts' variable anyway.
> 
> What I meant was that I won't manually(edit file) apply patch, but via 'patch' tool/bin.

Ok.

> > Hmm, you could try adding some more debugging to boot2.c to see exactly what
> > is failing.  For example, does the first call to 'parse()' fail and clear
> > autoboot?
> 
> I don't do nor understand c code.

Ok.  That will take a bit longer to fix, but that is ok.  I've attached a new
patch with some debugging output.  It shouldn't fix the problem yet, but I want
to see if any of the new messages are output, and when they are output.

> How could it silently loose documented functionality?

Several changes were made to boot2 to make it smaller so it could be compiled with
clang, and it seems that at least one of those changes must have had a bug.

-- 
John Baldwin
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