[RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu bugs?

[Devin Teske]

Hi Doug,

On Jul 17, 2011, at 5:08 PM, Doug Barton wrote:

> There also seems to be a bug with the new boot loader that if you bounce
> out to the prompt and do 'boot kernel.other' the kern.module_path sysctl
> is not updated. It still lists /boot/kernel first; but that should be
> replaced by /boot/kernel.other.

I had a chance to try this out in a VM.

I just tested this in FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with my loader_menu applied (exactly what's available from rev 222417).

The results I get are actually what you describe should happen.

Here's the steps I took:

1. Made sure all "kernel=" and "module_path=" lines were commented out in loader.conf(5)
2. Moved my kernel to /boot/kernel/kernel
3. Made a copy of my kernel to /boot/kernel2/kernel
4. Rebooted. Didn't touch anything. Verified that when I came up, `sysctl -n kern.bootfile' was /boot/kernel/kernel. Good. We have a baseline operation that things are working as-expected without interrupting the boot-process (that is to say, that loader(8) loaded the kernel in it's default location).
5. Reboot again. This time, I press Escape to the drop to the loader(8) prompt.
6. I took "boot /boot/kernel2"
7. I see the new kernel being loaded.
8. The kernel executes.
9. My system boots as-expected.
10. The value of sysctl kern.module_path produces (drum roll): /boot/kernel2;/boot/kernel;/boot/modules

What release are you running? I can't replicate the bug in 8.1-RELEASE with the new loader menu applied. It's possible that the bug was introduced some other way.
-- 
Devin

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