From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 3 4:48:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4A2937B91B for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 04:48:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA21250; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 07:48:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mwlucas) From: Michael Lucas Message-Id: <200008031148.HAA21250@blackhelicopters.org> Subject: Re: Latest kernel won't boot In-Reply-To: from Donn Miller at "Aug 2, 2000 1: 4:10 pm" To: dmmiller@cvzoom.net (Donn Miller) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 07:48:16 -0400 (EDT) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > > 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