Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 15:44:03 -0500 From: "Jim King" <jim@jimking.net> To: "Kenneth W Cochran" <kwc@world.std.com>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 4.4RC 21 August 2001, boot failure Message-ID: <00a701c12a82$06d87a50$524c8486@jking> References: <200108212034.QAA17241@world.std.com>
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"Kenneth W Cochran" <kwc@world.std.com> wrote: > Hello -stable: > > What changed between 19 August & today (21 August) that would > cause a known-good-and-stable kernel config to not boot? > > I updated Sunday 19 August, and as many times previously, > things were working ok. But a few minutes ago I updated & > made a new buildworld, buildkernel & installkernel, & the new > kernel refuses to boot -s (or at all) so I can complete the > install (aka installworld). The "complaint" is some kind of > verbosity about "can't find a boot-device" or "missing device > da(?)" I do have device da, as I have for a long long time... > Sorry I can't explain it any better b/c I (so far) I can't > capture that message-stream. It certainly never has done > *this* to me before... > > I also tried another cvsup, in case maybe I was in the "middle" > of some updates; none... I got the same thing about daXXX missing. It looks like neither one of my PCI cards got probed (an ahc and an xl). Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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