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Subject: Re: Booting a new kernel after "make installkernel"
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I've retried with 10.2-releng (r297915) built from a 10.2-RELEASE-p0 
install, and it built and rebooted just fine, now on p14.  It took 14 
hours, but great success!

I'd be happy to retry with 10.3 or 11 either vanilla or with any patches 
you'd like testing.


Thanks,
Roger

On 12/04/2016 20:41, Bill Sorenson wrote:
> I have had an issue with 10.3 on PowerPC that causes an unbootable
> situation. Try 10.2-releng and if that works I have something for you to
> try.
>
> On Apr 12, 2016 2:36 PM, "Roger Leigh" <rleigh@codelibre.net
> <mailto:rleigh@codelibre.net>> wrote:
>
>     Hi folks,
>
>     Sorry for the awfully naive question, but I've tried on several
>     occasions to build world using the instructions here:
>     https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/makeworld.html
>
>     They work fine on amd64, but on powerpc I'm always left with an
>     unbootable system.  It looks like it can't load or boot the kernel.
>     I've not customised anything; I've been trying to build 10.x-stable.
>
>     My previous experience was on Debian which required running yaboot
>     to update the Open Firmware bootloader configuration.  Are there any
>     additional steps required on FreeBSD/powerpc which aren't in the
>     generic instructions?