Something since June 8th clobbers my disk...

[Kent Stewart]

On Thursday 11 June 2009 06:33:24 pm Dan Allen wrote:
> On 11 Jun 2009, at 5:41 PM, Paul B. Mahol wrote:
> > Looks like boot(8) is problematic.
> > Anything in /etc/src.conf or /etc/make.conf?
>
> I have never touched or created a src.conf.  If there was one there,
> it has been unmodified by me.
>
> I HAVE modified make.conf.  Here is its contents:
>
> --- /etc/make.conf ---
>
> BATCH=yes
> NO_PROFILE=yes
> KERNCONF=DKA
> USE_FORTRAN=yes
> WITH_JADETEX=no
> PERL_VERSION=5.8.9
>
> ---
>
> My custom kernel named DKA has only three modifications from GENERIC:
>
> I commented out the following three lines:
>
> #cpu I486_CPU
> #cpu I586_CPU
> #makeoptions DEBUG="-g"
>
> I have run with such a kernel on many machines for many years now.
>
> However, my experiments have shown that the kernel build is not to
> blame.
>
> Isn't boot part of the kernel build?  Why would installing the kernel
> not cause this problem?
>
> It is by installing the world via make installworld that my drive gets
> munged.
>
> I obviously am missing something, but boot(8) sounds like it is in the
> neighborhood of where the problem is.
>
> There were changes to /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/libi386/biosdisk.c and
> biospnp.c that really look suspect to me.

The order of your builds in previous messages had the kernel built on an old 
world. You are supposed to do the buildworld first and then, build and 
install the kernel. The classic way at this point is to boot into single user 
mode and do the installworld.

Kent
>
> Dan
>
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Kent Stewart
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