From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 3 12:58:37 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA07009 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 12:58:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles317.castles.com [208.214.167.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA07004 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 12:58:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA07348; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 12:55:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199901032055.MAA07348@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai cc: Mike Smith , FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: Bootblocks / Bootloader In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 03 Jan 1999 21:52:19 +0100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 12:55:19 -0800 From: Mike Smith 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 ;) Unless you have KERNFORMAT=elf set, your kernel is still a.out. More to the point, the message that you're seeing there comes from line 99 in sys/ddb/db_aout.c. So if you have an ELF kernel going, I'm not sure why that code is being run at all. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message