6.2-PRE /boot/loader

Ruslan Ermilov ru at freebsd.org
Tue Oct 3 19:47:39 UTC 2006


Hi John,

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 03:00:40PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 October 2006 12:55, Norbert Augenstein wrote:
> >     Hi list,
> >     i have just updated to 6.2-PRERELEASE and GRUB is unable to use
> >     the new /boot/loader. Ending in an endless loop rebooting after
> >     selecting FreeBSD.
> >     As a workaround it was possible to chainload FreeBSD.
> >     Further investigation shows that /boot/loader.old is woking.
> > 
> >     So what can cause the new loader to fail?
> >     I have not set CFLAGS / CPUTYPE in /etc/make.conf
> >     
> >     No other problems , em device is working fine here:)
> 
> Talk to ru@ about his changes to make it use high memory by default.
> 
Do you mean that "my" (uncommitted) changes can cause this or
are you trying to say that making it use high and more memory
for heap by default would probably be a good idea?


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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