From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Sep 16 9:24:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C17837B422 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 09:24:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA19314; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 09:24:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) From: John Baldwin Message-Id: <200009161624.JAA19314@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: Loader badly broken on the alpha In-Reply-To: <20000916112759.B427@freebie.demon.nl> from Wilko Bulte at "Sep 16, 2000 11:27:59 am" To: Wilko Bulte Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 09:24:40 -0700 (PDT) Cc: Bernd Walter , Matthew Jacob , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, dcs@FreeBSD.ORGG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 09:23:54AM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 08:02:59PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > > I heard you, which is why I wasn't surprised when it died on me, but > > > > I hadn't seen it myself yet. Also, I tried to pinpoint what revision > > > > broke it but failed in my attempts to do so and wanted to try to communicate > > > > that to hopefully make it easier to pinpoint when it did actually break. > > > > If that makes any sense. > > > > > > Yes. Like I said, I shouldn't have sent the above mail. Sorry. > > > > I had a world from the 8th septempber running. > > After updating to the 13th it broke for me. > > Using the older loader did not help. > > Removing all 4th files and references work - beside that I had to > > set device.hints in loader.rc. > > With the kernel source from yesterday (World still from 13th) the kernel > > now gets installed as /boot/kernel/kernel instead of kernel.ko and the > > loader paniced similar because it was not able to load the kernel! > > I thought that we might have a similar unavailable file reference now with > > the 4th files. > > Great :-( I nuked my -current box yesterday with the same loader problems. > I promised billf to test the tx driver but now I'm screwed it seems. > > Any good suggestions to fix this loader thing short of reinstalling 4.1 > first? Boot teh 4.0 CD's. Use the live filesystem CD fixit option. Then do this: # mount /dist/dev/da0a /mnt # cp /dist/boot/loader /mnt/boot/loader # cd /mnt/boot # /dist/bin/sed -e 's/^/set /' device.hints > hints Reboot. The 4.0 loader doesn't have 4th support, so it will ignore all the 4th files. Break into a loader prompt, type 'include hints' to set all your hints. Then 'boot /boot/mykernelname/kernel'. > -- > Wilko Bulte wilko@freebsd.org -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message