From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Sep 16 2:26:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EB4437B424; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 02:26:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 13aEFH-0007RS-00; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 09:26:51 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8G9Rx101391; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 11:27:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 11:27:59 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Bernd Walter Cc: Matthew Jacob , John Baldwin , alpha@freebsd.org, dcs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Loader badly broken on the alpha Message-ID: <20000916112759.B427@freebie.demon.nl> References: <200009160220.TAA42547@pike.osd.bsdi.com> <20000916092354.A65727@cicely5.cicely.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000916092354.A65727@cicely5.cicely.de>; from ticso@cicely5.cicely.de on Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 09:23:54AM +0200 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 09:23:54AM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 08:02:59PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > > > I heard you, which is why I wasn't surprised when it died on me, but > > > I hadn't seen it myself yet. Also, I tried to pinpoint what revision > > > broke it but failed in my attempts to do so and wanted to try to communicate > > > that to hopefully make it easier to pinpoint when it did actually break. > > > If that makes any sense. > > > > Yes. Like I said, I shouldn't have sent the above mail. Sorry. > > I had a world from the 8th septempber running. > After updating to the 13th it broke for me. > Using the older loader did not help. > Removing all 4th files and references work - beside that I had to > set device.hints in loader.rc. > With the kernel source from yesterday (World still from 13th) the kernel > now gets installed as /boot/kernel/kernel instead of kernel.ko and the > loader paniced similar because it was not able to load the kernel! > I thought that we might have a similar unavailable file reference now with > the 4th files. Great :-( I nuked my -current box yesterday with the same loader problems. I promised billf to test the tx driver but now I'm screwed it seems. Any good suggestions to fix this loader thing short of reinstalling 4.1 first? -- Wilko Bulte wilko@freebsd.org Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message