From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 3 12:45:36 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA05825 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 12:45:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp05.wxs.nl (smtp05.wxs.nl [195.121.6.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA05820 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 12:45:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.57.15]) by smtp05.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA5345; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 21:45:08 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199901031930.LAA06745@dingo.cdrom.com> Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 21:52:19 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Mike Smith Subject: Re: Bootblocks / Bootloader Cc: FreeBSD Current Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message