From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Jul 3 11: 6:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D361D37B406 for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 11:06:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA06155; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 14:06:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.3/8.9.1) id f63I5lf06972; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 14:05:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15170.2427.286211.649159@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 14:05:47 -0400 (EDT) To: "B. Cook" Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is 4.3-stable broke on Alpha?! In-Reply-To: <3B420690.3000100@poklib.org> References: <3B41E85B.7020306@poklib.org> <15169.59839.299035.701076@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <3B420690.3000100@poklib.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message