Re: Kernel MINIROOTSIZE 8192 = No Boot

2007-06-26 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 16:51 +, Tobias Weingartner wrote: And no information about the machines beyond that? No dmesg, no information option NKPTP=16 ...fixed it. I wasn't going to burn 200k and 30 minutes on an e-mail about an issue that likely someone already knows about and

Re: Kernel MINIROOTSIZE 8192 = No Boot

2007-06-26 Thread Tobias Weingartner
Brian A. Seklecki wrote: On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 16:51 +, Tobias Weingartner wrote: And no information about the machines beyond that? No dmesg, no information option NKPTP=16 ...fixed it. I wasn't going to burn 200k and 30 minutes on an e-mail about an issue that

Re: Kernel MINIROOTSIZE 8192 = No Boot

2007-06-15 Thread Tobias Weingartner
Brian A. Seklecki wrote: The 1st stage loader just resets the prom before the kernel load. And the 1st stage loader would be? mbr? biosboot? /boot? lilo? winxp boot loader? Specifics make a difference. Can anyone else confirm this? You don't even need to elfrdsetroot(8) to test.

Re: Kernel MINIROOTSIZE 8192 = No Boot

2007-06-07 Thread mickey
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 01:39:47PM -0400, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: The 1st stage loader just resets the prom before the kernel load. Can anyone else confirm this? You don't even need to elfrdsetroot(8) to test. Just compile bsd.rd with MINIROOTSIZE=16384. I've been using 32768 on my 4.0

Re: Kernel MINIROOTSIZE 8192 = No Boot

2007-06-07 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Just recompiled with: #define NKPTP_MIN 8 #define NKPTP_MAX 191 Same result. Thank you though. We'll revisit it in the future when the money is available? ~BAS On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, mickey wrote: On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 01:39:47PM -0400, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: The 1st

Re: Kernel MINIROOTSIZE 8192 = No Boot

2007-06-07 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/06/07 11:52, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: Just recompiled with: #define NKPTP_MIN 8 #define NKPTP_MAX 191 Same result. Thank you though. We'll revisit it in the future when the money is available? this might be of interest:

Re: Kernel MINIROOTSIZE 8192 = No Boot

2007-06-07 Thread mickey
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 11:52:24AM -0400, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: Just recompiled with: #define NKPTP_MIN 8 #define NKPTP_MAX 191 Same result. Thank you though. We'll revisit it in the future when the money is available? i said NKPTP. if 8 is not enough -- try 16 cu On

Re: Kernel MINIROOTSIZE 8192 = No Boot

2007-06-07 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
It works; free beer on me for all on me ... (Columbia maybe) Thanks again, ~BAS On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, mickey wrote: On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 11:52:24AM -0400, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: Just recompiled with: #define NKPTP_MIN 8 #define NKPTP_MAX 191 Same result. Thank you

Kernel MINIROOTSIZE 8192 = No Boot

2007-06-06 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
The 1st stage loader just resets the prom before the kernel load. Can anyone else confirm this? You don't even need to elfrdsetroot(8) to test. Just compile bsd.rd with MINIROOTSIZE=16384. I've been using 32768 on my 4.0 systems for the bsd-appliance project. I've tested it on an AMD

Re: Kernel MINIROOTSIZE 8192 = No Boot

2007-06-06 Thread Theo de Raadt
It can't be that big. And in our tree, it isn't that big. You're doing things on your own, hitting constraints that exist in the code. You get to fix those things, since you've gone outside OpenBSD parameters. Not everything can work, you know. The 1st stage loader just resets the prom

Re: Kernel MINIROOTSIZE 8192 = No Boot

2007-06-06 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
I'm hoping to actually go smaller once FreeBSD has a funtional pivot_root() in the VFS layer (we can steal it from them) Then I can do a 512k RD/MD image (init, tar, gzip, mount_mfs(8), sh, etc.), then transition to a 64 to 96 meg MFS root. I'm talking to a consultant tomorrow about some