On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Why then it works on 3.4-STABLE (booting without loader(8) and
> having kvm(3) programs like pstat(8) and top(1) working).
> What makes a difference here?
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Hi!
Why then it works on 3.4-STABLE (booting without loader(8) and
having kvm(3) programs like pstat(8) and top(1) working).
What makes a difference here?
On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 09:38:41PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> < said:
>
> > If I boot with loader(8), everything is ok.
> > Ideas?
>
>
John Baldwin wrote:
>
> On 07-Feb-00 Bruce Evans wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> >
> >> If I boot the system without loader(8), e.g. with /boot.config=kernel,
> >> or by interrupting boot blocks and typing /kernel, swapinfo(8) fails:
> >>
> >> swapinfo: undefined symbol:
Garrett Wollman wrote:
> < said:
>
> > If I boot with loader(8), everything is ok.
> > Ideas?
>
> loader loads the kernel symbol table; boot2 does not.
>
> -GAWollman
More to the point, a non-stripped kernel has *two* symbol tables. One that
has the global symbols and is used for dynamic link
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, John Baldwin wrote:
> On 07-Feb-00 Bruce Evans wrote:
> > This is because the elf format puts static symbols in an out-of-the-way
> > section, and the boot2 stage of the bootstrap loads sections naively.
> > Static symbols end up in a place where the kernel linker can't find
>
On 07-Feb-00 Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
>
>> If I boot the system without loader(8), e.g. with /boot.config=kernel,
>> or by interrupting boot blocks and typing /kernel, swapinfo(8) fails:
>>
>> swapinfo: undefined symbol: _numvnodes
>
> This is because the
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> If I boot the system without loader(8), e.g. with /boot.config=kernel,
> or by interrupting boot blocks and typing /kernel, swapinfo(8) fails:
>
> swapinfo: undefined symbol: _numvnodes
This is because the elf format puts static symbols in an out-of-t
On 06-Feb-00 Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Fresh -current, GENERIC kernel.
>
> If I boot the system without loader(8), e.g. with /boot.config=kernel,
> or by interrupting boot blocks and typing /kernel, swapinfo(8) fails:
>
> swapinfo: undefined symbol: _numvnodes
>
> top(8) fails as well w
