From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Sep 16 11: 7: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.du.gtn.com (mail.du.gtn.com [194.77.9.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4107B37B422; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 11:07:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cicely.de (cicely.de [194.231.9.142]) by mail.du.gtn.com (8.11.0.Beta3/8.11.0.Beta3) with ESMTP id e8GI6tQ05918 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168 bits) verified OK); Sat, 16 Sep 2000 20:06:57 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de (cicely5.cicely.de [fec0::104:200:92ff:fe9b:20e7]) by mail.cicely.de (8.11.0.Beta1/8.11.0.Beta1) with ESMTP id e8GI72I90675; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 20:07:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.11.0/8.9.2) id e8GI6w066498; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 20:06:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso) Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 20:06:58 +0200 From: Bernd Walter To: Wilko Bulte Cc: Matthew Jacob , John Baldwin , alpha@freebsd.org, dcs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Loader badly broken on the alpha Message-ID: <20000916200658.B66455@cicely5.cicely.de> References: <200009160220.TAA42547@pike.osd.bsdi.com> <20000916092354.A65727@cicely5.cicely.de> <20000916112759.B427@freebie.demon.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000916112759.B427@freebie.demon.nl>; from wkb@freebie.demon.nl on Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 11:27:59AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 11:27:59AM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > 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? I had the real luck to have an ancient loader from April on the disk. It did not understood some configfiles and stopped with an prompt. Then I had to do the set commands for the device hints. You should try offering a loader from a disk and then switching disks on the loader prompt. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message