kern/129526: pxeboot fails to load kernel / modules

[John Baldwin]

On Saturday 07 March 2009 1:01:05 pm Hiroharu Tamaru wrote:
> Now the results:
> 
> 1) The original pxeboot did not even stop by saying it
>    cannot find the root filesystem (as I reported for 7.0RC1
>    pxeboot), but it silently blanked the screen out and hung
>    the system up.
>    --- I suppose the 8-current loader has grown even more?
>    By the way, if mfsroot.gz is unzip'ped to mfsroot, the
>    boot proceeds, as was so for the original 7.0RC1 pxeboot.
> 
> 2) The patched pxeboot worked!
>    -- this is good, but was quite expected, right?
> 
> 3) The patched pxeboot with LOADER_NO_GPT_SUPPORT="yes" in
>    /etc/make.conf gave the same symptom as the 7.0RC1
>    pxeboot: it fails for gzip'ed mfsroot.gz saying the root
>    filesystem is not found, but succeeds for unzip'ped
>    mfsroot .
>    --- so, just removing the GPT parts are not enough, at 
>    least for the pxeboot in current.
> 
> and finally, FWIW,
> 4) 7.0RC pxeboot hand-patched, and with
>    LOADER_NO_GPT_SUPPORT="yes" also failed, just like 3).
> 
> 
> It sure helps the default pxeboot, so for me it is much
> better if this is commited, but what would you say?

Ok, I will commit it.  It seems more than just GPT bloated the size too much.  
I'm not sure what that could be though.

-- 
John Baldwin