From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 3 11:34:16 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA28364 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 11:34:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles317.castles.com [208.214.167.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA28351 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 11:34:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA06745; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 11:30:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199901031930.LAA06745@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: Bootblocks / Bootloader In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 03 Jan 1999 12:36:45 +0100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 11:30:49 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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