Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 00:37:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Hoss Firooznia <hfir@math.rochester.edu> To: "M. L. Dodson" <bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu> Cc: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PicoBSD boot error: can't load kernel Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905050035320.45347-100000@hecke.math.rochester.edu> In-Reply-To: <199905042028.PAA00309@beowulf.utmb.edu>
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On Tue, 4 May 1999, M. L. Dodson wrote: > A make world and reboot solved my multiboot problems. So, Hoss, > if you have the situation I had: a 3.1-RELEASE boot chain, but > your /usr/src tree was -STABLE, you might suspect the same > problem I had. Yes! This diagnosis was right on target, Bud, thank you. :-) I actually wound up identifying the boot loader as a culprit after installing a recent -STABLE kernel on the PicoBSD build box and finding that I couldn't boot that kernel, either... doh! Though I may have complicated matters by making a new boot loader a few days back in an attempt to solve an earlier problem: I had reverted to 3.1-RELEASE sources in the hopes of avoiding what I (mistakenly) thought was a problem with -STABLE, after which I manually reinstalled the older -RELEASE boot loader. In any case, reinstalling the loader from -STABLE sources in /usr/src/sys/boot did the trick. Andrzej, I notice that the stage3 build script is getting the floppy's loader from /boot/loader (if I'm reading the script correctly). What do you think about changing it to build from source rather than relying on the installed version? Thanks again to all for the valuable help! - Hoss To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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