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Date:      Sun, 03 Jan 1999 21:52:19 +0100 (CET)
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Bootblocks / Bootloader
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990103215219.asmodai@wxs.nl>
In-Reply-To: <199901031930.LAA06745@dingo.cdrom.com>

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On 03-Jan-99 Mike Smith wrote:

>> ... [booting kernel]
>> 
>> [kernel symbol table not valid]
> 
> This is actually DDB complaining that your a.out symbol table is not 
> valid.  You may have over-aggressively stripped your kernel, or we may 
> have something going wrong that's eaten it in the load process.

I never stripped my kernels... And this is an ELF kernel from the 2nd and
it's still giving the notice after I installed the real new bootblocks... At
least that's what I am presuming since the whole system is ELF ;)
 
>> Any hints regarding loader.config and boot.conf are I think the last
>> hurdles
>> I face with the loader... [ Wishful thinking mayhaps ;) ]
> 
> Hints for "loader.config" are easy - it doesn't exist.
> 
> The online help in the loader is your best reference (for now) for 
> boot.conf (soon to be loader.rc).  It's still in flux, although I 
> expect to have to freeze it soon for 3.0.x.

OK, that explains some more =)  I have been reading a bit about the boot
process while messing around with it... I have to say the 4.4 BSD book is a
handy insight to have... 

thanks,

---
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven    A veil of smoke is what I am,
asmodai(at)wxs.nl                         I wait and I wait...
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