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Date:      Thu, 3 Aug 2000 07:48:16 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
To:        dmmiller@cvzoom.net (Donn Miller)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Latest kernel won't boot
Message-ID:  <200008031148.HAA21250@blackhelicopters.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008021301530.235-100000@acs-24-154-24-131.zoominternet.net> from Donn Miller at "Aug 2, 2000  1: 4:10 pm"

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Sorry for the last try, not enough caffiene yet...

Anyway, I had this problem as well.  The problem was that /boot/loader
wasn't working properly.  Without it, the system runs, but you can't
talk to the console.

You can either boot from fixit cdrom and install a new /boot/loader
or, as I did, use a serial console to connect to the machine.  (You
might be able to connect via TCP/IP as well; the system that had this
problem is a laptop, and gets configured via a shell script after
login.)

Good luck!

==ml

> Just recently build a kernel from cvsup, and the kernel won't boot.  It
> gets to the point where you see
> 
> booting [kernel]
> \
> 
> And it just hangs right there.  There's a lot of disk activity, and after
> about 2 minutes (and no boot messages), I see a login prompt, but the
> machine is froze.  Anyone else see this?
> 
> - Donn
> 
> 
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