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Date:      Thu, 18 Mar 1999 02:29:17 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>
Cc:        Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: KVA size changes in 3.1-stable
Message-ID:  <36EFE66D.5654E3F2@newsguy.com>
References:  <199903170351.WAA19489@cs.rpi.edu>

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The old loader is backed to /boot/loader.old, if you use normal
installation procedure.

So, interrupt the second stage, and boot the old loader (or the
kernel directly, actually).

I'm not entirely sure, but 4.0 loader might be depending on
/sys/sys/linker.h.

"David E. Cross" wrote:
> 
> AUGH!
> 
> I compiled the /boot/loader from the 4.0 tree CVS-ed a couple of hours ago
> (we have our own copy which periodically syncs with cvsup.freebsd.org).  I
> tell it to boot *any* kernel, and it just *hangs* (caps lock/scroll lock
> still works, but nothing else.)... Normally a /boot/loader startup looks
> something like:
> /-\|kernel /-\|/... etc you get the idea.
> 
> this one looks like:
> 
> /-\|/ (and hangs here)
> 
> Any ideas?
> (It doesn't matter which kernel I am trying to boot relocated or not :I )
> --
> David Cross
> 
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