On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 12:15:57PM +0200, Petr Salinger wrote: > Hello all, especially Aurelien. > > It is still unclear what the real reason is, > so far only acpi enable boots are affected. > I together with Emmanuel Bouthenot investigated yet more, > it looks like the problem lies in interaction > between gnu linker and grub bootloader. > > May be only GRUB 2 (d-i) based installation are affected, > the kfreebsd-loader (sysinstall hacked installer) > loads acpi.ko from 7.2-5 fine for me.
We should definitely debug this problem furtger, as GRUB-2 provides more features than kfreebsd-loader (like being able to edit the boot command or select different kernels). Also it is packaged, which is not the case of kfreebsd-loader. > Aurelien, please could you do upload of kfreebsd-7 > and kfreebsd-8 from current svn. The drop of > .comment section have been sufficient to convert > failing acpi.ko into fine one ... > I have built it here, and it still fails into a kernel panic. I am currently trying to build it also using '-z common-page-size=8192'. If it works, I'll upload this version. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 [email protected] http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
