YONETANI Tomokazu <qhwt.dfly@les.ath.cx> wrote:
> With dloader, one of my DragonFly box no longer waits 10 seconds before
> it starts the kernel. At first it prints
>
> Booting [kernel] in 10 seconds...
>
> but the next number is not 9 but some negative number with 4 or 5 digits.
> [...]
> I also added some printf's around autoboot() and installed it to the
> hard drive in this PC, and found that the negative number is actually
> caused by occasional odd values returned by time(); it mostly increases
> by one, but sometimes much larger values is returned, then back to the
> original series.
The very same problem happened with FreeBSD's loader under
qemu, and probably also under real hardware with broken
RTC BIOS functions. I fixed it in FreeBSD in r179825:
http://www.secnetix.de/olli/FreeBSD/svnews/index.py?r=179825
I'm not sure if the problem you're seeing with dloader is
related, but the symptoms are 100% the same as what I was
seeing.
Best regards
Oliver
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