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Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 12:06:50 -0700
To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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Subject: Re: CRUSH after recompile kernel... 
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At 06:15 PM 10/3/98 -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
>> >
>> Just out of curiosity I built an elf kernel without the debugger and
>> tried the /boot/loader.
>> It worked fine.
>> so the problem  had something to do with the debugger code.
>> I'll test it more Sunday.
>
>Ok.  I have a pretty good idea as to what might be going on now; 
>thanks for the input.  If you want to do something really helpful, 
>print the values of bootinfo.bi_symtab and bootinfo.bi_esymtab in the 
>non-debugger kernel, and then load it with btxboot and the loader.
>
>Put a printf somewhere in machdep.c, eg. around about where it tests to 
>call userconfig().
>
>My guess is that there's something wrong with the symbol table 
>information coming in, and it causes ddb to explode.
>
>
I'm not sure how to do the above.
But I have been following this thread and put

esym = ssym = 0;

in line 81 of /sys/i386/libi386/elf_freebsd.c
and I can now boot a current elf kernel with the standard bootblocks with
/boot/loader.
Manfred
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