Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 11:42:01 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: dmaddox@conterra.com Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Tom Torrance <freebsd@tomqnx.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RELENG_3 boot panic Message-ID: <36AD2B79.8CAF5CA2@newsguy.com> References: <19990125181232.A1172@dmaddox.conterra.com> <199901252324.PAA12570@dingo.cdrom.com> <19990125183901.A1404@dmaddox.conterra.com>
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"Donald J . Maddox" wrote: > > Ok. First, the issue of currency. As I stated earlier, all this > discussion is based on a kernel and world built Jan 24: Meaning, cvsupped on the 23 or earlier 24 (whatever that means in your TZ... :)? That's probably what Mike means by "out of date", since the loader was broken for a few hours on that day. > With this boot.conf, I don't have to change my fstab. If I remove > root_disk_unit, the / mount fails unless I change the device to > /dev/wd1a in fstab. And this sounds pretty much like the symptoms of said broken loader. When using -current, "up to date" means "cvsup again". (On the bright side, you can "cd /sys/boot; make depend all install" to replace the loader, without making a new world or kernel) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com If you sell your soul to the Devil and all you get is an MCSE from it, you haven't gotten market rate. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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