From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 31 14:23:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5180137B417 for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 14:23:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 12393 invoked from network); 31 Dec 2001 22:23:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 31 Dec 2001 22:23:25 -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 14:23:15 -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 just did a "make buildworld; make installworld; mergemaster" > > I am not at home at teh moment and the laptop is the only machine there > so the serial; cable wouldn't help much.. > I will re-install it and try it again with your suggested hack > > As for what's there I'm not kidding when I say "too fast for my neurons". > It flashes past so quickly I;m not completely sure at all what I'm seeing. > CDROM bootblocks worked fine :-) Yeah, when it reboots, it is fast. Introducing some sort of delay in exit() on i386 might not be that bad of an idea. > On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > >> >> 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/ >> > -- 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