> On Wednesday 08 October 2008 04:33:25 pm Fernan Aguero wrote: > > > On Wednesday 08 October 2008 06:15:15 am Fernan Aguero wrote: > > > > > Did anyone who can trigger the data corruption has tried John's patch > > > > > and let us know if it worked? > > > > > > > > Not yet. My problem is that it's not that easy ... (at least > > > > for me, but maybe I'm missing something). > > > > > > > > The main issue for me is that I don't have a spare box > > > > running 7.x. All my FreeBSD boxes are running 6.x > > > > > > > > I've tried to make a new 7.1-BETA bootable ISO from the > > > > patched sources (make release), but failed ... this is the > > > > first time I've ever attempted this, and it seems that you > > > > cannot do that from a 6.x box (I have a full CVS mirror of > > > > FreeBSD, and a fresh checkout of RELENG_7). > > > > > You can just grab the existing iso, > > > > OK > > > > > untar it into a directory, > > > > OK > > > > > build your own GENERIC kernel and replace the > > > /boot/kernel/kernel in the iso tree, > > > > Will I be able to do this using a 7.x checkout on a 6.x box? > > You can use 'make kernel-toolchain' followed by 'make buildkernel' on a 6.x > box to build a 7.x kernel though. > -- > John Baldwin
John, thanks for the tip. I have now successfully gone through the process of making a new bootable CD using the ATA_HT1000 patched kernel. I have already done a minimal installation of FreeBSD-7.1-BETA onto the SC1435 PowerEdge box using this CD (BTW dmesg now shows the ad4 disk being recognized as SATA150 instead of giving a warning about a bad cable and recognizing it as an ATA drive). But I'm stuck at the last step ... > Just be sure that once you've installed the box, > you copy the updated kernel onto the box somehow before you > reboot from the > installer (you can use the fixit shell to help with this). I'm at the holographic emergency shell, and df(1) shows all the partitions in ad4s1 mounted under /mnt. So my idea is to cp boot/kernel/kernel /mnt/boot/kernel/ but when I do an ls(1) the /mnt directory appears to be empty ... However I'm unable to umount it! My recollection: $ df -h /dev/ad4s1a => /mnt /dev/ad4s1d => /mnt/tmp /dev/ad4s1e => /mnt/usr ... $ ls /mnt/boot boot: no such file or directory $ ls /mnt/ . .. $ umount /mnt device is busy I'm now downloading a 7.1-BETA-livefs ISO and I'll try next to boot the box with this CD to see if I can scp the kernel from another box ... but any other tip or suggestion is welcome. Fernan _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
