BUG: 9.0 stage 2 boot (/boot/boot)
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Thu Feb 23 14:34:14 UTC 2012
On Friday, February 17, 2012 2:43:55 am rank1seeker at gmail.com wrote:
> Anyway, after upgrading to 9.0, my USB stick, when created, started to hang
at stage 2 boot.
> I have a custom setup, where BSD label 'a', has a content of /boot/*
> So when 'a' is being hit by stage 2 boot, there is boot.config waiting for
it.
> After it reads it and displays it's content, it echos 'No' and hangs.
>
> I stare at it and can't believe as boot.config's information is correct!
> I hit '?' and it list all files in 'a'.
> Then I simply RE-type what is displayed on screen (content of boot.config ->
path to loader)
> And loader kicks in!
>
> I do this a few times more and EACH time I have to RE-type correct info!
> Tested on other machine, same thing.
>
> However, this same custom layout works for HDD's, but NOT for USB stick.
>
> I've extracted binary installs of 8.2 and 9.0 R:
> MD5 (8_boot) = adb1e84e96bd434e51cafaaa0ef22584
> MD5 (9_boot) = 40f3f6403ebd5e131259d1336b4b50ad
>
> Then:
> # gpart bootcode -b 8_boot da0s2
> And sudenly that USB stick boots, without ANY other change!
> Just an "old" stage 2 boot code, from R8 was enough.
Looks like it is thinking that 'kname' is empty. Ah, I think Roman broke this
in 219186:
@@ -474,11 +461,7 @@ parse()
? DRV_HARD : 0) + drv;
dsk_meta = 0;
}
- if ((i = ep - arg)) {
- if ((size_t)i >= sizeof(kname))
- return -1;
- memcpy(kname, arg, i + 1);
- }
+ kname = arg;
}
arg = p;
}
Before it only set kname if it wasn't an empty string. Now it always sets
kname. Try this change:
Index: boot2.c
===================================================================
--- boot2.c (revision 231983)
+++ boot2.c (working copy)
@@ -457,7 +457,8 @@ parse()
? DRV_HARD : 0) + drv;
dsk_meta = 0;
}
- kname = arg;
+ if (*arg != '\0')
+ kname = arg;
}
arg = p;
}
--
John Baldwin
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