Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 21:52:19 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: FreeBSD Current <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Bootblocks / Bootloader Message-ID: <XFMail.990103215219.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <199901031930.LAA06745@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On 03-Jan-99 Mike Smith wrote: >> ... [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. I never stripped my kernels... And this is an ELF kernel from the 2nd and it's still giving the notice after I installed the real new bootblocks... At least that's what I am presuming since the whole system is ELF ;) >> 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. OK, that explains some more =) I have been reading a bit about the boot process while messing around with it... I have to say the 4.4 BSD book is a handy insight to have... thanks, --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven A veil of smoke is what I am, asmodai(at)wxs.nl I wait and I wait... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; BSD & picoBSD: 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
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