From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 4 17:27:23 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D868116A41F for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 17:27:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03C6943D62 for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 17:27:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EixdP-0001UL-F6 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 18:26:47 +0100 Received: from r5k4.chello.upc.cz ([86.49.10.4]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 18:26:47 +0100 Received: from martinkov by r5k4.chello.upc.cz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 18:26:47 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: martinko Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 18:26:01 +0100 Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: <438398F2.9020802@chillt.de> <20051123013603.O66337@chylonia.3miasto.net> <20051125102023.M99147@pobox.sk> <43872949.6050602@chillt.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: r5k4.chello.upc.cz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051114 X-Accept-Language: sk, cs, en-gb, en-us, en In-Reply-To: Sender: news Subject: Re: recompiled 6.0 does not boot -- need help !! X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 17:27:24 -0000 martinko wrote: > Bartosz Fabianowski wrote: > >>> thanks, but the issue is with the loader itself >> >> >> >> Telling it to use loader.old should definitely work around that >> problem. Unless, of course, the problem lies within something that >> starts even earlier. In this case, you could always use a 6.0 CD to >> restore the original, working, files. >> >> - Bartosz > > > i tried to interrupt booting process as you advised in previous email > but that didn't work. i spotted some text from grub, then something like > [FreeBSD-a.out ..... and then reset. > > anyway, i've fixed it for now by booting from CD and renaming > /boot/loader.old to /boot/loader > i'll try to investigate on this later on. > > thank you for your help! > > martin > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > hello again, i've just cvsuped to 6.0-stable and recompiled & reinstalled world & kernel and guess what ?!? -- loader is still broken!!! this time my machine is not reset, it just hangs. and i had to boot from cd and replace loader with the original 6.0-R. :-( this definetely needs to get fixed. i'll be happy to help someone more experienced, of course. regards, martin