From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 31 12:39:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail12.speakeasy.net (mail12.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42DFF37B43C for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 12:39:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 26624 invoked from network); 31 Dec 2001 20:39:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail12.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 31 Dec 2001 20:39:27 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 12:39:17 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Julian Elischer Subject: RE: anyone seen this? Makes system unbooable. Cc: current@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 31-Dec-01 Julian Elischer wrote: > I upgraded by cvs on saturday night, > Sunday I didn't use it. > Monday I tried to boot it. but the loader says: > ASSERT > and the system reboots Hmm, the string "ASSERT" doesn't appear as a text string anywhere under /sys/boot. Hmm, libstand does have it, and the ficl library seems to use it. A serial console would save the message so you had time to read it. :) If you want to introduce a sleep, then sys/boot/i386/loader/main.c has an exit() function you could put a while(1) or some such in. Are you sure you don't have your loader and 4th scripts out of sync? -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message