**HEADS UP** FreeBSD-5 boot code has been committed

Robin P. Blanchard robin.blanchard at gactr.uga.edu
Mon Nov 17 13:11:16 PST 2003


I still can neither boot a static fxp/miibus kernel nor a modular kernel with
sources as of this morning (EDT). I'm using a modular 4.9 kernel (kernel +
if_fxp + miibus) temporarily. Attached is modular kernel config. World/Kernel
built/installed appropriately...


"Matthew Dillon" <dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:<200311132201.hADM1Zce058869 at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>...
>     Ok, I think the prelinking problem is due to if_fxp's dependancy on
>     miibus.ko.  The boot code is not preloading miibus.ko which causes the
>     kernel to attempt to load it from the not-yet-mounted root 
> filesystem.
> 
>     I will commit fixes to prvent the panic and to figure out why the
>     miibus.ko dependancy is not being preloaded.
> 
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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