Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 07:34:38 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: FreeBSD Current <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Bootblocks / Bootloader Message-ID: <XFMail.990104073438.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <199901032055.MAA07348@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On 03-Jan-99 Mike Smith wrote: >> On 03-Jan-99 Mike Smith wrote: >> >> >> ... [booting kernel] >> >> >> >> [kernel symbol table not valid] >> > >> > This is actually DDB complaining that your a.out symbol table is not >> > valid. You may have over-aggressively stripped your kernel, or we may >> > have something going wrong that's eaten it in the load process. >> >> I never stripped my kernels... And this is an ELF kernel from the 2nd and >> it's still giving the notice after I installed the real new bootblocks... >> At >> least that's what I am presuming since the whole system is ELF ;) > > Unless you have KERNFORMAT=elf set, your kernel is still a.out. More > to the point, the message that you're seeing there comes from line 99 > in sys/ddb/db_aout.c. So if you have an ELF kernel going, I'm not sure > why that code is being run at all. OK, another mess up... I was only checking /etc/objformat, while I forgot that the /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/Makefile.i386 wasn't set to elf... So I am now compiling a true ELF kernel... But it still strikes me as odd that before I installed the new bootblocks my a.out kernel never gave me the symbol table message and afterwards it did. --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven A veil of smoke is what I am, asmodai(at)wxs.nl I wait and I wait... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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