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

[John Baldwin]

On Friday, March 02, 2012 10:17:03 am 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>, Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org>
> Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 16:14:43 -0500
> Subject: Re: BUG: 9.0 stage 2 boot (/boot/boot)
> 
> 
> > > However, avg@ might have found the actual cause of the bug.  And Roman did
> > > indeed break this earlier.  Try the updated boot2_test.patch again.
> > 
> > You should still try this.
> > 
> > -- 
> > John Baldwin
> > 
> 
> 
> Using patch:  MD5 (boot2_test.patch) = 72412f9b47b114302268561f12c1b46b
> 
> http://www.starforce.biz/stage2boot_1.jpg
> 
> This is the worst patch as even RE-typing doesn't work.
> That is, it is completely unable to boot.
> 
> Throw me another patch!

Ah, was using sizeof() on the wrong thing, and I have a fix for the garbage
you saw for kname as well.  Patch is updated at the normal URL.

> > Please don't treat John this way.  He has put in a lot of time for
> > you, and many others, and is one of THE experts.
> > 
> > Chris
> 
> 
> He didn't got a bad treatment, nor any side is angry.
> Relax! ;)

Actually, you've been rather rude for the entire thread, I am just doing my
best to ignore it in the interest of getting the bug fixed.

-- 
John Baldwin