From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 26 18:34:45 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C862106564A for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:34:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kjblack@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B7A28FC1C for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:34:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kjblack@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so148932rvf.43 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:34:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition; bh=+hlDs91z5zp+PhvtYrpcs3gZTP2Z+CzDOTCNTyMU02w=; b=jYy4n1gNZ9MGXKgpTW1iVKMpXig1B8ZA07sva6dUEtZnBy93wYEEHjLR18GvZ2Y3OL XtR5BYVIhMHrhhb/VOmygYUBhqEPog+XHaXZ1ePgFEhSaGZINT3rlR5TKIitV9mD82v3 cru5EHZUKiOujS2Pv4iCD/bEfYk7ZRh/zFTI4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=R2RjkZAjykhHX8fhGM8hH9TXfjSyzZt8gtyZkcy7gfkb+UuJ44/tZtyC2ahSrFgu6g 8mtv6md3UK40UVzUPOjGhCOnnPYhVH4vEZs4jGrVCFMs42YOxawR8y9xr2f/dYUOC5Z0 4tXnmaUNVchI4XXB97OjRDCLainVneNzUTCtY= Received: by 10.141.137.6 with SMTP id p6mr189821rvn.279.1214505284113; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:34:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.136.10 with HTTP; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:34:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1b1b33f10806261134v7ce1750ek17d8985fc7263141@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:34:44 -0400 From: "Kelly Black" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: Problem with /boot/loader 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: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:34:45 -0000 > >On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Kelly Black wrote: >> I have a problem with loader. I recently upgraded from 6_rel to 7_rel. >> Now when I install world there is a problem booting. >> >> Here is what I do: >[snip] >> Now when I reboot there is a problem. I get an error that the system >> cannot boot. Part of it looks like this: >> Can't work out which disk we are booting from. >> Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes, defaulting to disk0: >> >> If I boot from a live disk and replace /boot/loader with >> /boot/loader.old it boots up fine and everything looks good. A new >> world and a new kernel. I would be grateful for any help or any >> pointers. > >What do you have in /etc/make.conf? I recall there being a point in >time where incorrect CFLAGS options could build a broken loader. > >Try renaming /etc/make.conf (or just commenting out all >CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS options) and rebuilding either just the loader or the >whole world, and see if that makes a difference. > >-- >Freddie Cash >fjwcash@gmail.com > Hello, Thank you for the reply. I put my make.conf file back to its default when I first did the upgrade to avoid other kinds of problems: make.conf # added by use.perl 2008-04-07 11:54:35 PERL_VER=5.8.8 PERL_VERSION=5.8.8 And it still produced the loader that does not load. Sincerely, Kel -- _______________________________________________________ Kelly Black Phone: (518) 388-8727 Department of Mathematics FAX: (603) 388-6005 Union College e-mail: kelly.black@union.edu Schenectady NY 12308 (USA) WWW: http://blackk.union.edu/~black