From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 11 13:23:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 595E137B502 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 13:23:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 69027 invoked by uid 100); 11 Oct 2000 20:23:47 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14820.52307.386792.915088@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 15:23:47 -0500 (CDT) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading -stable -> -current, boot failure? In-Reply-To: <13328.971283415@winston.osd.bsdi.com> References: <14820.10867.8261.441382@guru.mired.org> <13328.971283415@winston.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I've got a system with 4.1-STABLE installed. I mount -current sources > on it, do make buildworld/buildkernel/installkernel/installworld and > reboot. The boot loader runs, gives me the "booting default in..." > countdown, prints "|", and then stops. After thrashing the disks (with > *no* boot messages), I get a prompt from init. Thanks to everyone who pointed out /etc/device.hints. If you do installkernel without a device.hints, the make fails. My mistake was assuming I could create an empty one and have it work :-(. Thanx again,