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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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