From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 12 19:10: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from birch.ripe.net (birch.ripe.net [193.0.1.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34A9237B404 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 19:10:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from laptop.6bone.nl (penguin.ripe.net [193.0.1.232]) by birch.ripe.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g5D2A0A01046 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 04:10:00 +0200 Received: (nullmailer pid 7646 invoked by uid 1000); Thu, 13 Jun 2002 02:09:59 -0000 Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 04:09:59 +0200 From: Mark Santcroos To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel booting diff between boot2 and loader Message-ID: <20020613020959.GA3690@laptop.6bone.nl> References: <20020611012627.GM20001@laptop.6bone.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020611012627.GM20001@laptop.6bone.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i X-Handles: MS6-6BONE, MS18417-RIPE Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 03:26:28AM +0200, Mark Santcroos wrote: > I wonder what is different in booting the kernel from loader(8) and from > boot2. > > In vmware2 I am not able to boot the kernel from boot2, it hangs after > loading the kernelfile. Using loader it goes fine. > I tried current,stable and generic kernels, all without luck. > > This was not really a problem, until I wanted to use etherboot, where I > ofcourse can't use loader. fyi: this was fixed by statically compiling the hints file into the kernel. -- Mark Santcroos RIPE Network Coordination Centre http://www.ripe.net/home/mark/ New Projects Group/TTM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message