From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 16 08:15:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA20757 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 08:15:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from camel8.mindspring.com (camel8.mindspring.com [207.69.200.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA20749 for ; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 08:15:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dgason@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (user-38lcdfo.dialup.mindspring.com [209.86.53.248]) by camel8.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA30171 for ; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 11:14:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <35D6F8AE.DEC88476@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 11:20:15 -0400 From: Dave Ason X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new kernel won't boot Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I've installed 2.2.7 onto a new 5G drive. When I make a new kernel, it >stops booting at ed0 and then doesn't go any further. This new kernel is >a direct copy of GENERIC; I make no changes. Strange. > >Is this unusual? Shouldn't GENERIC just work? I've seen no errors >displayed. You are right, a rebuild of GENERIC should work fine; it does on my 2.2.5 system. However, here are some thoughts: 1) Is your 2.2.7 system an upgrade from an older verion of FreeBSD? How did you do your upgrade? If only some of the files were upgraded while others were not and you attempted a rebuild, I can see all sorts of potential problems with that. 2)You mentioned that this was a new drive. Is there an older copy of FreeBSD on an older drive? Might your system be trying to boot from this older drive? 3) The first time you did your build, the good kernel should have been saved as /kernel.old Save a copy of this as something else. (On your second rebuild the good kernel in kernel.old will be gone) When I am screwing around with a new kernel, I always keep a copy of this saved as "kernel.good" in case I really mess things up. You can specify a particular kernel to boot from at the "boot:" prompt. Good luck, Dave dgason@mindspring.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message