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From: Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>
To: "Joel M. Baldwin" <qumqats@outel.org>
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Subject: Re: -CURRENT boot problems: loader, kernel
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	Has this problem actually been fixed yet since I never saw any
followups to this thread?


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On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Joel M. Baldwin wrote:

>
> So I'm not the only one having problems. .  .
>
> FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.0
> (qumqats@outel.org, Fri Nov  9 01:58:33 PST 2001)
> name not found
> Assert failed: (false), function ficlCompileSoftcore, file softcore.c,
> line 291
>
> I got the system running by:
>
> booting up with a set of 'fixit' floppies
> mounting the root drive
> cd'ing into /boot,
> mv loader loader.new
> cp loader.old loader
> reboot
>
>
> Robert Watson wrote:
> >
> > Upgraded a box to yesterday's -CURRENT, and am experiencing two problems:
> >
> > (1) the machine spins rebooting after loading /boot/loader.  I don't get a
> > chance to interupt the boot once /boot/loader starts.  Unfortunately, my
> > serial console support also seems to be broken, so I can't read the error
> > that flicks up before the reboot.
> >
> > (2) if I try to boot /boot/kernel/kernel directly, rather than via
> > /boot/loader, it hangs in the twiddling bar.
> >
> > If I load the old loader and kernel, things work fine.  I'm currently
> > trying to diagnose the serial console problem, and will post more as I
> > figure something out.
> >
> > There are reports on that channel about other machines having the same
> > problem, so if you're upgrading, make sure to keep an old loader around.
> >
> > Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
> > robert@fledge.watson.org      NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services
> >
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