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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@linux.gr>
To: Jon Noack <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu>
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Subject: Re: instant reboot when trying to load recent RELENG_5 kernel
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On 2004-10-29 15:06, Jon Noack <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu> wrote:
> Jon Noack wrote:
> > Updated my RELENG_5 machines today and one of them did not survive the
> > reboot.  When the loader tries to load the kernel, the machine instantly
> > reboots.  I thought it might be due to using CPUTYPE?=athlon-xp in
> > /etc/make.conf, but it still happens on a kernel compiled with CPUTYPE
> > commented out.  I also tried versions of the loader compiled with and
> > without CPUTYPE; both loaders were able to successfully load a kernel
> > from 3 days ago but neither of them succeeded with various kernels
> > compiled today.
>
> I am still not able to load a new kernel (RELENG_5_3 now) without an
> instant reboot.  As soon as I type "load /boot/kernel.new/kernel" from the
> boot loader the machine reboots.  Any ideas would be greatly
> appreciated...

Hmmm.  Can you try "boot kernel.new" instead of the "load foo" stuff?
Does it make any difference?