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Subject: Re: Is 4.3-stable broke on Alpha?!
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Andrew Gallatin writes:
 > 
 > 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..

Hmm.. the last 1/2 of that sentence never made it to the keyboard:

It could have been corrupted by having your root filesystem fill up as
it was writting the file, and the installworld then failed w/o you noticing.

Drew

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