This allows obtaining crash dumps from the panics occured during late stages
of kernel initialisation before system enters into single-user mode.
MFC after: 2 weeks
- Change the 'fopen' keyword to accept a mode parameter. Note that this
will break existing 4th scripts that use fopen. Thus, the loader
version has been bumped and loader.4th has been changed to check for a
sufficient version on i386 and alpha. Be sure that you either do a full
world build or install or full build and install of sys/boot after this
since loader.old won't work with the new 4th files and vice versa.
PR: kern/32389
Submitted by: Jonathan Mini <mini@haikugeek.com>
Sponsored by: ClickArray, Inc.
On OFW based machines, it is just too confusing having the firmware and
OS loader giving the same prompt. This is a nice compromise that 99% of the
users on non-OFW platforms will probably not even notice.
instead of looping until the disk is full. This kind of failure can
especially happen when a version of awk that doesn't support POSIX
character classes is used.
Submitted by: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
devices in 'lsdev' output rather than printing out a pointer to the
print function since the user really could care less about the pointer
value. Perhaps this was intended to be a debugging printf?
information. The default limits only effect machines with > 1GB of ram
and can be overriden with two new kernel conf variables VM_SWZONE_SIZE_MAX
and VM_BCACHE_SIZE_MAX, or with loader variables kern.maxswzone and
kern.maxbcache. This has the effect of leaving more KVM available for
sizing NMBCLUSTERS and 'maxusers' and should avoid tripups where a sysad
adds memory to a machine and then sees the kernel panic on boot due to
running out of KVM.
Also change the default swap-meta auto-sizing calculation to allocate half
of what it was previously allocating. The prior defaults were way too high.
Note that we cannot afford to run out of swap-meta structures so we still
stay somewhat conservative here.
file is processed by passing its name in argv[1]:
return(mod_loadobj(typestr, argv[1]));
however, it is not tested to see if argv[1] actually is defined.
At best, mod_loadobj() near line 244 returns an error like
"can't find 'garbage'" but if the "filename" entered is sufficiently
long, some buffer gets overrun. Of course, "load -t filename" is
actually a typo because we meant to type "load -t mfs_root filename";
nevertheless, a hung machine seems like too harsh a punishment for
such a small typo...
PR: i386/27693
Submitted by: Adrian Steinmann <ast@marabu.ch>
MFC after: 1 week
As of this patchset, the loader builds (under NetBSD/macppc), boots, interacts
and talks to BOOTP/NFS servers.
(main.c was moved from boot/ofw/libofw to boot/ofw/common but has no revision
history)
Reviewed by: obrien
to make things more interchangeable between it and the FORTH case.
Perhaps requiring the space is a bit too much, but...
Nothing in the tree seems to produce loader.rc files with comment
line, at this time.
gets the name from the environment variable kernelname, which is set
when a kernel is loaded. For this reason, autoboot will _first_ try
to load a kernel, and only proceed with the wait prompt after that
succeeds. If it fails, it will abort immediately.
While I understand some may think this behavior undesirable, I think
it is, overall, the best thing to do, even if we do not consider the
aesthetic issue. Notice that anyone using the default loader.rc
already has the kernel loaded before autoboot.
On unload, unset kernelname.
Separate the code that tries to load a kernel from the list of options
to the function loadakernel(). It is used by both boot() and
autoboot().
identifier to the DHCP server. Now you can check for this string
in your dhcp configuration to decide whether you will hand out a
lease to the client or not.
no clue.
Set sourceid to 0 when booting, which is the correct setting for stdin.
Set sourceid to an arbitrary fd when include'ing, preserving and restoring
the previous sourceid. This is possibly broken(), as 0 is a valid fd. Maybe
we should +1 to this value.
This fixes the version problem widely reported.
be booted. Due to a bug, this wasn't happening.
There is still a lesser bug in that the loader decides which file to boot
after the 10sec count down. This means the bootfile listed in the count
down in is wrong in the case where the loader will boot /kernel.old.
- Add support for using the PCI BIOS functions for configuration space
accesses, and make this the default.
- Make PNPBIOS the default (obsoletes the PNPBIOS config option).
- Add two new boot-time tunables to disable each of the above.
was the last unit number received. If it changes, it flushes the cache.
Add bcache_flash().
The actual fix is sligthly different from the one in the PR.
PR: 17098
Submitted by: John Hood <jhood@sitaranetworks.com>
is an application space macro and the applications are supposed to be free
to use it as they please (but cannot). This is consistant with the other
BSD's who made this change quite some time ago. More commits to come.
Mike says the whole idea of a current device was a bad idea in first place,
and will be doing away with currdev.
Anyway, people are not supposed to even notice this. :-)
* Make it possible to type a filename to boot1 so that it is possible to
recover from fatally broken versions of /boot/loader.
* Make a start at a CD boot program (not yet functional).
