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Date:      Tue, 04 Apr 2000 14:07:29 +0200
From:      Bernd Luevelsmeyer <bernd.luevelsmeyer@heitec.net>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: nlist failed in 4.0
Message-ID:  <38E9DB01.9FCF3D1B@heitec.net>
References:  <87187.954844144@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>

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Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 04 Apr 2000 05:18:29 +0200, Bernd Luevelsmeyer wrote:
> 
> > when starting 'top' or 'systat' on FreeBSD 4.0, they fail with 'top:
> > nlist failed' or 'systat: nlist: can't find following symbols: _cp_time
> > _ccpu _fscale'. They fail whether I'm root or not.
> 
> Either you've already had this question answered, or you're asking
> a recently asked question almost verbatim. :-)

I saw too late that Randy Bush had the same problem.


> I believe that the problem is in loading the kernel directly, instead of
> using the boot loader.  In other words, at the boot prompt you're doing
> something like
> 
>         load /kernel
> 
> instead of something like
> 
>         load /boot/loader

I've indeed had a /boot.config with '/kernel' in it.

I thought however this was permissible, and I never had problems with
previous versions of FreeBSD. I don't like all the roundabouts with
"press any key to start immediatly" and such before it boots, so I'd
like to leave out the /boot/loader.

Btw, I found 'swapinfo' also won't work without /boot/loader.


Thanks,
	Bernd


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