On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 03:58:07AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 03:31:24AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 02:30:20AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 02:52:25PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > > > Is there something you special-cased when handling CDs or not-CDs? (For > > > > example, grub-legacy doesn’t handle iso9660 from media with !2048by > > > > sectors at all.) > > > > > > There is, but I don't think it has any relation to this problem. iso9660 > > > filesystems in non-CD are known-stable code. Only the boot mechanism is > > > new. > > > > > > In fact, I have some ideas on what could be causing this, but unless I can > > > reproduce it, I'm wary of sending shots in the dark. And despite all my > > > efforts I've been unable to reproduce it: > > > > > > - I grabbed Aurelien's mini.iso and extracted its files. > > > - I used the same version of grub-pc and grub-common as Aurelien > > > (1.98~20091229-1) to generate a new image. > > > - I did this on kfreebsd-i386 (I specifically installed the i386 > > > flavour to test this). > > > > > > I also tried today's Bazaar trunk and kfreebsd-amd64 before that. It > > > _always_ > > > works for me. > > > > > > Except when I use the mini.iso directly, of course, but that's not very > > > useful... > > > > > > Aurelien, could you try building the image in another environment? E.g. > > > kfreebsd-amd64 and/or using a newer grub-pc. > > > > > > > I upgraded both my kfreebsd-i386 and kfreebsd-amd64 machines to > > 1.98~20090101-1. It still fails on kfreebsd-i386, but works on > > kfreebsd-amd64. I haven't investigated why though. > > It is due to (the size?) of /boot/mfsroot.gz. Using the one from > kfreebsd-amd64 on kfreebsd-i386 makes it working, though it later fails > when trying to run /sbin/init.
I was hoping I'd be able to reproduce this, but I can't find a way to. Given the situation, I think I'll start sending shots in the dark and see if that catches something. I'll be back to you soon. -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
