From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 17 8:51:27 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 3D38237B401 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 08:51:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp6.andrew.cmu.edu (SMTP6.andrew.cmu.edu [128.2.10.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 958A843F1E for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 08:51:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rjmccall@andrew.cmu.edu) Received: from UNIX46.andrew.cmu.edu (UNIX46.andrew.cmu.edu [128.2.13.176]) (user=rjmccall mech=KERBEROS_V4 (0 bits)) by smtp6.andrew.cmu.edu (8.12.3.Beta2/8.12.3.Beta2) with ESMTP id h0HGpDQA004047; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:51:13 -0500 Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:51:12 -0500 (EST) From: John McCall To: Mark Murray Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i386 boot failure In-Reply-To: <200301171644.h0HGiNaX034857@grimreaper.grondar.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT 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 Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Mark Murray wrote: > > 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? Ack, sorry. That's a snipping artifact; the actual conf file has these as two separate lines, and random.ko is in fact present in /boot/kernel/. John. -- évana roì, séana coì, reìja venacoì u vëja haman. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message