At 16:02 -0800 12/7/00, Jim Browne wrote:
When TFTP tries to open a file, it is expecting struct open_file
member f_devdata to be a pointer to a socket number. When currdev
is "pxe", that assumption is correct. When currdev is "disk*", that
assumption is incorrect. Specifically, tftp.c
This is probably an OK workaround. I think that there's something
fundamentally wrong with the 'net' filesystems getting called for an open
against a disk device, but I've paged out all the libstand state and I
can't get it back fast enough to comment more usefully. 8(
BTW Jim, the stuff
At 17:44 -0800 12/7/00, Mike Smith wrote:
This is probably an OK workaround. I think that there's something
fundamentally wrong with the 'net' filesystems getting called for an open
against a disk device, but I've paged out all the libstand state and I
can't get it back fast enough to comment
Regardless, the check I added should be there as it was an uncovered
error condition.
... and I just realised I deleted your patch. D'oh!
BTW Jim, the stuff you're working on sounds really cool. Thanks for
taking it on!
Apparently I am a glutton for punishment. Expect more bugfix
:I've already looked at this, investigating a problem reported in
:connection with PR 21559. I'll probably sort it out in the next day
:or two, unless someone else gets there first.
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That'd be great. When you have a patch, if
Matt Dillon wrote:
I sure would appreciate it if one of the bootstrap gurus could take
a look at what happens when the tftp open routine is called from a
normal disk-based /boot/loader!
I've already looked at this, investigating a problem reported in
connection with PR 21559.
At 00:13 -0800 12/7/00, Mike Smith wrote:
The option works wonderfully for /boot/pxeboot. But it turns out
that the normal /boot/loader, when compiled with the above
option, will crash horribly whenever it tries to open() a file and
can't find it in the UFS filesystem on
Ah ha! I think I found the culprit, but I'm not sure exactly where
in the tftp code the problem is occuring.
I have been setting LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT in /etc/make.conf so my pxeboot
file uses tftp to get the kernel rather then NFS (since NFS appears to
only be able to
Ah ha! I think I found the culprit, but I'm not sure exactly where
in the tftp code the problem is occuring.
I have been setting LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT in /etc/make.conf so my pxeboot
file uses tftp to get the kernel rather then NFS (since NFS appears to
only be able to get
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