Thanks, Brooks! That was the issue. I did manatee to mess up the bisection, so I am back to near my original start, I do have a more recent good to start with. I spent too many years with old-fashioned SVN and CVS and forgot how easy it is to not only branch, but merge with git.
Thanks again! On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM Brooks Davis <bro...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 01:58:13PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > I probably just don't understand something about the git repo, but I am > > having no luck bisecting the kernel after updating 3 days ago to a kernel > > that crashed at boot. > > > > # git bisect start > > # git bisect good 99976934274d > > # git bisect bad 2542189532b3 > > # make -j12 kernel > > # shutdown -r now > > PANIC and boot kernel.old (9976934274d) > > # git bisect bad > > /usr/src updates to 1d482ca6e37b9d34ccd3c7d > > > > Can someone explain what happened? How can any /usr/src hash provide a > > /usr/src lacking Makefile? How can I bisect any further? > > I suspect you're probably bisecting across a merge commit. If so, you > need to use the --first-parent argument to start to avoid taking right > hand side which is off in the vendor tree and not a valid FreeBSD source > tree. > > -- Brooks > -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683
