From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Jul 4 5:45:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D1B537B400 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 05:45:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B47AE43E09 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 05:45:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA29620; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 08:45:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g64CilM27139; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 08:44:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15652.17215.813278.872265@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 08:44:47 -0400 (EDT) To: opr@securax.org Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot loader problems on alpha In-Reply-To: <1025769273.259.2.camel@laptop.core.bsdaemon.be> References: <1025739770.261.17.camel@laptop.core.bsdaemon.be> <15651.43628.853445.578902@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <1025769273.259.2.camel@laptop.core.bsdaemon.be> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Pieter Danhieux writes: > On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 03:52, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > > When the boostrap goes bad, you generally see much worse problems > > (like halts with out any output) You probably somehow managed to > > clobber /boot/loader when you were doing your installworld (/ full?) > > > > Did you make world or install prebuilt binaries? None of the changes > > on the 4.6 security branch goes at nywhere near the bootloader as far as > > I know. > > > > Try booting /boot/loader.old.. > > how can i make that it boots loader.old? Hit a key repeatedly after you see the SRM console start to boot. I usually use / Then you should get a Boot prompt. Type /boot/loader.old at that prompt. You didn't answer my question above -- what exactly did you do to upgrade this machine? Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message