Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 11:30:49 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: FreeBSD Current <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Bootblocks / Bootloader Message-ID: <199901031930.LAA06745@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 03 Jan 1999 12:36:45 %2B0100." <XFMail.990103123645.asmodai@wxs.nl>
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> OK, just rebooted and wrote down some things: > > > boot: > > Booting 0:da(0,a)/boot/loader @ 0x100000 > text=0x1000 data=0x1c000 bss=0x00 symbols=[0x0+0x4+0x0+0x4+0xff8c] > > Can't find file /boot/loader.config > total=0x12cf94 entry point=0x100000 > > BTX loader > > ... [looks good] > > bootstrap loader revision 0.2 > Can't open /boot/boot.conf: no such file or directory Ok, this is harmless. It emits this message for the same reason that the old bootblocks complained about boot.config and boot.help - so that you know that it would be using them if they were there. We could suppress this, or you could just touch the file; I'm easy either way. > ... [booting kernel] > > [kernel symbol table not valid] This is actually DDB complaining that your a.out symbol table is not valid. You may have over-aggressively stripped your kernel, or we may have something going wrong that's eaten it in the load process. > Any hints regarding loader.config and boot.conf are I think the last hurdles > I face with the loader... [ Wishful thinking mayhaps ;) ] Hints for "loader.config" are easy - it doesn't exist. The online help in the loader is your best reference (for now) for boot.conf (soon to be loader.rc). It's still in flux, although I expect to have to freeze it soon for 3.0.x. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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