Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:00:53 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BETA1 announcement Message-ID: <200602141500.k1EF0rJr065149@lurza.secnetix.de>
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Hi, I tried loading a 6.1-BETA1 kernel (the default GENERIC kernel from the BETA1 distribution) on a system with the /boot directory (including /boot/loader) from a 4.x installation. To be exact, it's 4.9-RELEASE. It didn't work. The kernel didn't even print the copyright line or anything else, it just hung. Is that expected behaviour? Can a 6.x kernel not be loaded with the 4.x boot infrastructure? To be honest, I had expected that the kernel at least booted into single user mode. Or maybe that it panicked when trying to execute init(8). Or maybe even earlier, but I didn't expect that it hangs immediately. What's happening there? Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
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