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Cc: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: -current boot hosed on Alpha
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David O'Brien writes:
 > On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 05:18:34PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
 > > Oh, OK.  So then he may have gotten screwed if he
 > > did a buildworld/installworld during the awk experiment, installed
 > > 'bad' awk, then did buildworld/installworld now & got a loader built
 > > with the bad awk.  Does that sound right?
 > > 
 > > Wilko.  If you can get your machine to boot, copy /boot/loader.old
 > > over /boot/loader and try rebuilding/reinstalling the loader without
 > > bothering w/a buildworld.
 > 
 > I would:
 > 
 >     hit space to get the bootblocks to not load the loader
 >     da(0,a)/boot/loader.old
 >     cd /usr/src/contrib/awk
 >     cvs up -PdA
 >     cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/awk
 >     cvs up -PdA
 >     make obj
 >     make all install

You might also want to build the loader & install it at this point
too..  After saving off a copy of /boot/loader.old to
/boot/loader.good or something.

 >     reboot


Drew

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