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Date:      Tue, 3 Jul 2001 14:05:47 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        "B. Cook" <bcook@poklib.org>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Is 4.3-stable broke on Alpha?!
Message-ID:  <15170.2427.286211.649159@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3B420690.3000100@poklib.org>
References:  <3B41E85B.7020306@poklib.org> <15169.59839.299035.701076@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <3B420690.3000100@poklib.org>

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B. Cook writes:
 > Please excuse my brevity from before.. as I was unsure if the message 
 > would go through or if it would even be read.

Not a problem.

<...>
 > loading /boot/loader
 > Can't open /boot/loader
 > halted CPU 0
 > 
 > upon issuing a boot dqa1 the same thing happens, and boot dqa0 does what 
 > it should nothing ;)

It sounds like your -stable upgrade was botched in some fashion and
/boot/loader is missing or corrupt.  I'd be interested in knowing if
the loader was corrupted or not installed.  It could have been
corrupted by having your root filesystem fill up, for example..

As to how to recover from this -- You could try attempting to load
/boot/loader.old by madly hammering a key (I like "/") as it starts
to boot (right around the time the "loading /boot/loader" gets spit
out).  This works much, much better on a graphics console.

If that doesn't work, you should be able to recover by booting from CD
(you said you had one, right?)


Drew

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