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From: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>
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Subject: Re: Broken loader on 7.1-STABLE?
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Mark Kirkwood wrote:
>
>  ...specifying /boot/loader.old got me booted ok (not sure why this 
> *didn't* work with the Asus, maybe I need to try it again with the Feb 
> sources).
>
>

I tried the latest RELENG_7 sources, same result - does *not* boot even 
specifying the old loader. I spent a bit of time narrowing down why. I'd 
previously noted that an empty loader.conf was sufficient to get it to 
boot again. After some experimentation I discovered that this line in 
loader.conf:

sound_load="YES"

made the boot with the old loader fail (loading the sound module after 
booting seems to work ok).

The box is an Asus a8vx with amd64 x2 3800+, running i386.

regards

Mark