Trying to cross-build FreeBSD 10 release ISOs for sparc64

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Hi all,

Further to my earlier post, I figured it would probably make sense to 
setup my own FreeBSD build environment to work out what was happening 
but I can't seem to produce any valid ISOs for qemu-system-sparc64. The 
steps I took were as follows:

1) Created a new VM on a KVM amd64 host
2) Downloaded the latest FreeBSD 10 amd64 release ISO
3) Installed the basic system
4) Followed the instructions in the developers handbook to cross-build a 
kernel (TARGET=sparc64 TARGET_ARCH=sparc64)
5) Try and boot generated ISOs

While the output ISOs are generated, they appear to be invalid (or at 
least OpenBIOS can't find a valid partition on them). Reviewing the 
logs, the entire build process seems to work all the way up to the point 
where the ISOs are generated which looks like this:


root at freebsd:/usr/src/release # make -dx TARGET=sparc64 
TARGET_ARCH=sparc64 cdrom
sh /usr/src/release/sparc64/mkisoimages.sh -b FreeBSD_Install disc1.iso 
release
Calculated size of `/tmp/bootfs.PjPBSKfi/bootfs.img': 524288 bytes, 4 inodes
Extent size set to 8192
/tmp/bootfs.PjPBSKfi/bootfs.img: 0.5MB (1024 sectors) block size 8192, 
fragment size 1024
         using 1 cylinder groups of 0.50MB, 64 blks, 64 inodes.
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
  32,
Populating `/tmp/bootfs.PjPBSKfi/bootfs.img'
Image `/tmp/bootfs.PjPBSKfi/bootfs.img' complete
16+0 records in
16+0 records out
8192 bytes transferred in 0.000175 secs (46811633 bytes/sec)
1510+1 records in
1511+0 records out
495124480 bytes transferred in 35.611080 secs (13903664 bytes/sec)
1+1 records in
2+0 records out
655360 bytes transferred in 0.002090 secs (313572789 bytes/sec)
2+0 records in
2+0 records out
655360 bytes transferred in 0.001184 secs (553519748 bytes/sec)
gpart: scheme 'VTOC8': Invalid argument
gpart: No such geom: md0.
gpart: No such geom: md0.


Superficially it looks as if gpart can't understand the partitioning 
scheme used for sparc64 ISOs but does anyone else have any ideas as to 
why this isn't working? I should add that the FreeBSD 10 release sparc64 
ISOs downloaded directly from freebsd.org appear to be fine and start to 
boot as intended.


Many thanks,

Mark.