Re: Problem running FreeBSD/RISC-V in QEMU
Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 20:44:29 UTC
On 2022-05-20 8:36 a.m., lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de wrote: > Hi everybody, > > > I am trying to run FreeBSD/RISC-V in QEMU. > > For that purpose I have installed FreeBSD/amd64 inside Virtual Box on a macOS machine: > > FreeBSD FreeBSD14 14.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT #0 main-n255696-716fd348e01: Thu May 19 08:29:12 UTC 2022 root@releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/GENERIC amd64 > > and then followed those instructions: > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/riscv#Quick_Start > > > > The boot process is initialized but then however I get repeatedly: > > failed to allocate staging area: 9 > > here is the part where it fails, truncated, since the above message is repeated endlessly: > > Loading kernel... > /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x5a5e88 text=0x172c34 data=0xf8350 data=0x1eac+0x273b9c 0x8+0x1efc360+0x8+0xf28d3 > Loading configured modules... > can't find '/etc/hostid' > can't find '/boot/entropy' > Using DTB provided by EFI at 0x87efb000. > Kernel entry at 0xf660002e... > Kernel args: (null) > failed to allocate staging area: 9 > failed to allocate staging area: 9 > > > What is going wrong here? > Seems to be a bug made visible by the recent upgrade of LLVM/clang. It was reported here: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=264021 If you grab the snapshot from 2 weeks ago, it might not exhibit this problem. Otherwise, it looks like a fix is in progress. https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/VM-IMAGES/14.0-CURRENT/riscv64/20220505/ Cheers, Mitchell > > Thanks in advance and if you need more information please let me know! > > Kind regards, > > Lars