From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 11 11:42:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8C6C37B66D for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:42:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (ether.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.196]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9BIffi92168; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:41:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <14820.10867.8261.441382@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:42:15 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Mike Meyer Subject: RE: Upgrading -stable -> -current, boot failure? Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 11-Oct-00 Mike Meyer wrote: > I've got a system with 4.1-STABLE installed. I mount -current sources > on it, do make buildworld/buildkernel/installkernel/installworld and > reboot. The boot loader runs, gives me the "booting default in..." > countdown, prints "|", and then stops. After thrashing the disks (with > *no* boot messages), I get a prompt from init. > > Since the same sources build and boot properly elsewhere, I assume > I've missed a step. I normally run mergemaster after installworld and > rebooting singleuser. Could someone provide the clue I've not got? You are missing /boot/device.hints. Boot the system and you can get into multiuser fine (or you should be able to, at least), then cp /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC.hints /boot/device.hints and edit to taste. > thanx, > -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message