From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 17 8:45: 1 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B59A437B401 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 08:45:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.FreeBSD.org.uk [194.242.157.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2CD743F18 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 08:44:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.org) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (uucp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0HGiceQ040009; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 16:44:38 GMT (envelope-from mark@grondar.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) with UUCP id h0HGicGD040008; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 16:44:38 GMT Received: from grondar.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grimreaper.grondar.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0HGiNaX034857; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 18:44:23 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.org) Message-Id: <200301171644.h0HGiNaX034857@grimreaper.grondar.org> To: John McCall Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i386 boot failure In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Jan 2003 04:30:20 EST." Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 16:44:23 +0000 From: Mark Murray 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 > I've recently been trying to bring a system of mine (4.7-R) up-to-date > with -CURRENT by following the dotted lines in UPDATING; basically, > everything up through 'make installkernel' and the 'make install' from > /usr/src/sys/boot has gone fine; I reboot into loader(8) and 'boot -s', > but literally just after printing its "I just loaded acpi.ko" message the > system just hangs at a twiddle-prompt, forever stilled. Well, not quite: > the keyboard lights blink once and the hard drives click, but no further > response. This isn't an ACPI problem; I've unset acpi_load, and the only > difference is that the system spins for half a second longer before dying. > loader claims to have preloaded the (new) kernel already. [ snip ] > # Pseudo devices - the number indicates how many units to allocate.device random # Entropy device This looks funny. What happens if you load the random device? M -- Mark Murray iumop ap!sdn w,I idlaH To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message