Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:51:12 -0500 (EST) From: John McCall <rjmccall@andrew.cmu.edu> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i386 boot failure Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L-027.0301171148320.7042-100000@unix46.andrew.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200301171644.h0HGiNaX034857@grimreaper.grondar.org>
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On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Mark Murray wrote: > > I've recently been trying to bring a system of mine (4.7-R) up-to-date > > with -CURRENT by following the dotted lines in UPDATING; basically, > > everything up through 'make installkernel' and the 'make install' from > > /usr/src/sys/boot has gone fine; I reboot into loader(8) and 'boot -s', > > but literally just after printing its "I just loaded acpi.ko" message the > > system just hangs at a twiddle-prompt, forever stilled. Well, not quite: > > the keyboard lights blink once and the hard drives click, but no further > > response. This isn't an ACPI problem; I've unset acpi_load, and the only > > difference is that the system spins for half a second longer before dying. > > loader claims to have preloaded the (new) kernel already. > > [ snip ] > > > # Pseudo devices - the number indicates how many units to allocate.device random # Entropy device > > This looks funny. What happens if you load the random device? Ack, sorry. That's a snipping artifact; the actual conf file has these as two separate lines, and random.ko is in fact present in /boot/kernel/. John. -- évana roì, séana coì, reìja venacoì u vëja haman. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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