From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 9 13:38: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from outel.org (outel.org [207.173.133.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16A3037B419; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 13:38:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from outel.org (athlon [192.168.1.20]) by outel.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fA9Lc1I09509; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 13:38:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from qumqats@outel.org) Message-ID: <3BEC4CBD.EDF13C7E@outel.org> Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 13:38:05 -0800 From: "Joel M. Baldwin" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Watson Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -CURRENT boot problems: loader, kernel References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message