Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 07:13:39 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WARNING: need to do a 'config -r' Message-ID: <37299E73.1DA9B6B3@math.missouri.edu> References: <199904290644.QAA02237@lightning.itga.com.au>
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I had the same problem myself - see my thread "Kernel panic" which I traced to this problem. Gregory Bond wrote: > > Something has changed in an odd sort of way since I did my last kernel install > (Apr 1) and today. > > Normally, I do > cvsup > make buildworld > make installworld > mergemaster > check my kernel config files against changes to LINT and/or GENERIC > config -g Kernel > cd compile/Kernel > make depend all > make install > reboot. > > This time, it all went without errors but the kernel generated would not boot. > It got loaded by the BTX loader, the kernel booting countdown went to zero, > then nothing - no message, no activity, no nothing. Reset switch the only way > out. Fortunately, the old kernel.GENERIC would boot. Phew! > > I had to do a 'config -r -g Kernel' and rebuild the kernel from absolute > scratch before I could get a bootable kernel. It seems something in the > kernel sources changed but in a way too subtle for make depend to discover... > > Greg. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu 307 Math Science Building stephen@showme.missouri.edu Department of Mathematics stephen@missouri.edu University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO 65211 USA Phone (573) 882 4540 Fax (573) 882 1869 http://math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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