From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 3 22:27:56 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA01251 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 22:27:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.wxs.nl (smtp01.wxs.nl [195.121.6.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA01235 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 22:27:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.56.65]) by smtp01.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA239F; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 07:27:27 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199901032055.MAA07348@dingo.cdrom.com> Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 07:34:38 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Mike Smith Subject: Re: Bootblocks / Bootloader Cc: FreeBSD Current Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 03-Jan-99 Mike Smith wrote: >> 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 ;) > > Unless you have KERNFORMAT=elf set, your kernel is still a.out. More > to the point, the message that you're seeing there comes from line 99 > in sys/ddb/db_aout.c. So if you have an ELF kernel going, I'm not sure > why that code is being run at all. OK, another mess up... I was only checking /etc/objformat, while I forgot that the /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/Makefile.i386 wasn't set to elf... So I am now compiling a true ELF kernel... But it still strikes me as odd that before I installed the new bootblocks my a.out kernel never gave me the symbol table message and afterwards it did. --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven A veil of smoke is what I am, asmodai(at)wxs.nl I wait and I wait... Network/Security Specialist BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message