Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 16:44:23 +0000 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org> To: John McCall <rjmccall@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i386 boot failure Message-ID: <200301171644.h0HGiNaX034857@grimreaper.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Jan 2003 04:30:20 EST." <Pine.LNX.4.44L-027.0301170341500.19880-100000@unix49.andrew.cmu.edu>
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> 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? M -- Mark Murray iumop ap!sdn w,I idlaH To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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