From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 12 16:40:49 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 58F4D37B502 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 16:40:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (cshumway@localhost) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9CNdia32977; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 16:39:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cshumway@bsdi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: pike.osd.bsdi.com: cshumway owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 16:39:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Christopher Shumway X-Sender: cshumway@pike.osd.bsdi.com To: Mike Meyer Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading -stable -> -current, boot failure? In-Reply-To: <14820.10867.8261.441382@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, 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? Do you have an /boot/device.hints? This file tells the kernel where to find devices at boot time, including a console. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message