Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 17:31:22 -0500 From: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@conterra.com> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: dmaddox@conterra.com, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Tom Torrance <freebsd@tomqnx.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RELENG_3 boot panic Message-ID: <19990126173122.B1725@dmaddox.conterra.com> In-Reply-To: <36AD2B79.8CAF5CA2@newsguy.com>; from Daniel C. Sobral on Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 11:42:01AM %2B0900 References: <19990125181232.A1172@dmaddox.conterra.com> <199901252324.PAA12570@dingo.cdrom.com> <19990125183901.A1404@dmaddox.conterra.com> <36AD2B79.8CAF5CA2@newsguy.com>
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Of course, you're right. I rebuilt the loader from a fresh cvsup, and it works as expected now. On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 11:42:01AM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > "Donald J . Maddox" wrote: > > > > Ok. First, the issue of currency. As I stated earlier, all this > > discussion is based on a kernel and world built Jan 24: > > Meaning, cvsupped on the 23 or earlier 24 (whatever that means in > your TZ... :)? That's probably what Mike means by "out of date", > since the loader was broken for a few hours on that day. > > > With this boot.conf, I don't have to change my fstab. If I remove > > root_disk_unit, the / mount fails unless I change the device to > > /dev/wd1a in fstab. > > And this sounds pretty much like the symptoms of said broken loader. > > When using -current, "up to date" means "cvsup again". > > (On the bright side, you can "cd /sys/boot; make depend all install" > to replace the loader, without making a new world or kernel) > > -- > Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) > dcs@newsguy.com > > If you sell your soul to the Devil and all you get is an MCSE from > it, you haven't gotten market rate. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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