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| By Aragon Gouveia <aragon@phat.za.net>
|                                          [ 2008-11-01 08:43 +0200 ]
> > Anything is possible.  Can you please rebuild your system, and the
> > bootstraps (and don't forget to install them; bsdlabel -B <slice>),
> > without messing with optimisation flags?
> 
> I just upgraded to 7.1 today.  No luck, even with loader compiled without
> optimisations, it is still unstable on my system for some reason.  No
> biggie for me, but possibly worthy of investigation if others have similar
> problems. (my hardware is quite new still)
> 
> I'm more than open to help troubleshoot this further if you (or anyone) has
> any ideas on what to try next.

Quick (progressive) update!

I thought I'd see how loader behaves on my various boot CDs.  My 7.0-RELEASE
discs both work fine - loader doesn't freeze.  My 7.1-BETA2 disc's loader
behaves the same as the loader I compile.

I've copied the loader binary from one of the 7.0-RELEASE discs onto my
system and it works great just like that, and no more freezing.

Perhaps a change that happened in RELENG_7 after 7.0-RELEASE is causing
this?  I've been experiencing it since my RELENG_7 checkout in May this
year.


Regards,
Aragon