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From: Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>
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Am 18.10.2006 um 17:29 schrieb Norbert Augenstein:

> after updating my pc (RELENG_6) last night and everything went
>     fine i updated my laptop as well. Unfortunately my laptop ran into
>     this constantly rebooting problem caused by the new
>     /boot/loader. And again, /boot/loader.old works fine on my
>     laptop.

One possible (probable?) cause is non-default CFLAGS, or using  
certain values for CPUTYPE.  Not sure what the underlying problem is,  
but anything but the defaults seems to trip loader up.


HTH,
Stefan

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Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>   Fon +49 170 346 0140