From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 22 17:30:37 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5152416A41F for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 17:30:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A87143D6B for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 17:30:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EebvG-0000Hp-Sf for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:27:14 +0100 Received: from port-212-202-115-220.static.qsc.de ([212.202.115.220]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:27:14 +0100 Received: from martinkov by port-212-202-115-220.static.qsc.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:27:14 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: martinko Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:26:29 +0100 Lines: 24 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: port-212-202-115-220.static.qsc.de User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Sender: news Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: recompiled 6.0 does not boot -- need help !! 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: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 17:30:37 -0000 dear all, i recompiled kernel (and world) and it does not boot anymore. even loader does not start. :-(( [note: version 6.0-release] now, when i think of it, i suspect the reason might be CPUTYPE=pentium-m -- long time ago i read either in freebsd or linux mailing lists something along the lines that CPU is not fully initialised when it may encounter a pentium-m specific instruction generated by compiler. i'm not sure whether this is the case but if it is, it definetely should be clearly noted somewhere in make.conf example and man pages and the handbook. (!) now, that my system no longer boots, what can i do to make it run again pls?? mind that i'd like not to reinstall from scratch, rather to recompile and reinstall the faulty kernel. (and keep my data of course) any advice appreciated! many thanks in advance, martin