Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 13:17:18 -0700 From: Manfred Antar <mantar@pacbell.net> To: Adam <bsdx@looksharp.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world left me with an unbootable system Message-ID: <4.3.2.1.2.20000420131352.04548468@pozo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004201541320.87221-100000@turtle.looksharp. net>
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At 03:55 PM 4/20/2000 -0400, Adam wrote: >Last night around midnight EST I cvsupped and did make buildworld, config >-r'ed my kernel, compiled it, installed the kernel and did make >installworld. I rebooted expecting the system to come up fine but it >failed with "Invalid partition table". This was just after removing 2 of >3 of my dimm's becauseI thought they were causing a seperate >problem. The system is not overclocked, but SMP. Attempting to boot >kernel.old left me with the exact same problem. Here is what my screen >says: > >Verifying DMI Pool Data ....... > >BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 >Console: internal video/keyboard >BIOS drive A: is disk0 >BIOS drive C: is disk1 >BIOS drive D: is disk2 >BIOS drive E: is disk3 >BIOS 639k/130048kB available memory > >FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.7 >(user1@sapphire.looksharp.net, Thu Apr 20 01:30:00 EDT 2000) >Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf >/kernel > text=0x186b9f data=0x3b81c+0x1b33c syms=[0x4+0x26000+0x4+0x2ac6c] >- >Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. >Booting [kernel]... >Invalid partition table_ > >where _ is the blinking cursor > > >I am not afraid of using the fixit disk if I have to, but I also have a >spare 5g disk I could toss in and install freebsd on if that would be the >easiest way of fixing this. ANY suggestions or insight to the problem is >appreciated! Yesterday I built a new loader (/boot/loader) after there were some changes made to the src tree for the loader. When I rebooted the machine hung with some error messages. I used the fixit disk and mounted the root partition and copied /boot/loader.old to /boot/loader Then everything worked. Try that Manfred ===================== || mantar@pacbell.net || || Ph. (415) 681-6235 || ===================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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