From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 3 11:14:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA05297 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 11:14:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m1-17-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA05253 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 11:13:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id UAA00922; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 20:11:41 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199810031811.UAA00922@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: CRUSH after recompile kernel... In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981003090856.00a1c890@192.168.0.1> from Manfred Antar at "Oct 3, 98 09:12:57 am" To: mantar@netcom.com (Manfred Antar) Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 20:11:38 +0200 (SAT) Cc: rnordier@nordier.com, osa@etrust.ru, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Manfred Antar wrote: > At 02:26 PM 10/3/98 +0200, Robert Nordier wrote: > > > >Better still, why not try the new i386 loader (/sys/boot/i386/loader), > >now that it supports ELF? > > How do you go about using /boot/loader ? > I've been using btxboot with elf kernel and it works. > I get a kernel symbol not valid when it first starts to boot but the kernel > loads OK > I'm using btxboot-0.8.2. Using the new loader should be as simple as cd /sys/boot make mkdir /boot make install though you should restore your standard boot blocks (ie. don't use btxboot). Then type /boot/loader at the regular boot: prompt. There's more to it than this, involving /boot/boot.conf files, and so on, but that should get you started. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message