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Subject: Re: Custom Kernel Problem
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On Sunday 21 September 2008 03:50:36 Michael Gass wrote:
> Installed FreeBsd 7.0 a few weeks ago in a Pentium III
> with just 128 M of memory. Recently compiled a custom kernel.
> It seems to work ok, but dmesg gives the following at the end:
>
> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
> pid 438 (kldstat), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)
> pid 547 (kldstat), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)
> pid 553 (kldstat), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)

This is invoked by /etc/rc.d/* system. Do a grep for kldstat which scripts use 
it and maybe you can work out from there, which kernel modules cause the 
problem.
Can you run kldstat from console?

-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.