From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 9 10:26:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE1FF37B416 for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 10:26:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.6/8.11.5) with SMTP id fA9IQGB84544 for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 13:26:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 13:26:16 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: -CURRENT boot problems: loader, kernel In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Looks like it was a delayed affect of the awk change; recovering via /boot/loader.old and rebuilding and installing src/sys seemed to get things under control. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Robert Watson wrote: > > Upgraded a box to yesterday's -CURRENT, and am experiencing two problems: > > (1) the machine spins rebooting after loading /boot/loader. I don't get a > chance to interupt the boot once /boot/loader starts. Unfortunately, my > serial console support also seems to be broken, so I can't read the error > that flicks up before the reboot. > > (2) if I try to boot /boot/kernel/kernel directly, rather than via > /boot/loader, it hangs in the twiddling bar. > > If I load the old loader and kernel, things work fine. I'm currently > trying to diagnose the serial console problem, and will post more as I > figure something out. > > There are reports on that channel about other machines having the same > problem, so if you're upgrading, make sure to keep an old loader around. > > Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project > robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message