From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 21 13:44:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from flounder.jimking.net (flounder.jimking.net [209.205.176.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC00E37B414 for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 13:44:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@jimking.net) Received: from jking (jking.lgc.com [134.132.76.82]) (authenticated) by flounder.jimking.net (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7LKi3907209 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128 bits) verified NO); Tue, 21 Aug 2001 15:44:09 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jim@jimking.net) Message-ID: <00a701c12a82$06d87a50$524c8486@jking> From: "Jim King" To: "Kenneth W Cochran" , References: <200108212034.QAA17241@world.std.com> Subject: Re: 4.4RC 21 August 2001, boot failure Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 15:44:03 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2479.0006 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2479.0006 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Kenneth W Cochran" 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