6.2-PRE /boot/loader

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 03:58:38PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> 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?
> 
In experimental uncommitted patches, yes.


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