6.2-PRE /boot/loader
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Tue Oct 3 20:11:26 UTC 2006
On Tuesday 03 October 2006 15:48, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 11:47:35PM +0400, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> Hmm, well. I forgot that I've already committed them. But
> it doesn't use high memory by default, only if bzip2 support
> is activated.
I thought you changed that from '#ifdef LOADER_BZIP2_SUPPORT' to '#if 1' in
your patches so it now always uses high memory?
--
John Baldwin
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