Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:26:46 -0400 From: "Kelly Black" <kjblack@gmail.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-stable Digest, Vol 258, Issue 5 Message-ID: <1b1b33f10806300726w6fc7098ajab9756a701f0d29f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080627120023.23A0C1065766@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20080627120023.23A0C1065766@hub.freebsd.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 8:00 AM, <freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org> wrote: > Message: 5 > Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:54:41 -0700 > From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> > Subject: Re: Problem with /boot/loader > To: Kelly Black <kjblack@gmail.com> > Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, jhb@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <20080626195441.GA2608@eos.sc1.parodius.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 02:34:44PM -0400, Kelly Black wrote: >> >On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Kelly Black <kjblack@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I have a problem with loader. I recently upgraded from 6_rel to 7_rel. >> >> Now when I install world there is a problem booting. >> >> >> >> Here is what I do: >> >[snip] >> >> Now when I reboot there is a problem. I get an error that the system >> >> cannot boot. Part of it looks like this: >> >> Can't work out which disk we are booting from. >> >> Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes, defaulting to disk0: >> >> >> >> If I boot from a live disk and replace /boot/loader with >> >> /boot/loader.old it boots up fine and everything looks good. A new >> >> world and a new kernel. I would be grateful for any help or any >> >> pointers. >> > >> >What do you have in /etc/make.conf? I recall there being a point in >> >time where incorrect CFLAGS options could build a broken loader. >> > >> >Try renaming /etc/make.conf (or just commenting out all >> >CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS options) and rebuilding either just the loader or the >> >whole world, and see if that makes a difference. >> >> Hello, >> >> Thank you for the reply. I put my make.conf file back to its default >> when I first did the upgrade to avoid other kinds of problems: >> >> make.conf >> # added by use.perl 2008-04-07 11:54:35 >> PERL_VER=5.8.8 >> PERL_VERSION=5.8.8 >> >> And it still produced the loader that does not load. > > Kelly, > > A couple things: > > I'm wondering if you're getting bit by changes made to loader(8) by John > Baldwin last year. Those changes were positive and increased > compatibility with systems greatly, but there were a couple reports of > users whose systems preferred the old "method" used. Those changes are > documented here; and yes, I realise you don't get a screen full of > continual register dumps, but different people saw different behaviour: > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/Commonly_reported_issues > > Also see these mailing list threads: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-October/078755.html > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-November/038214.html > > Secondly, you said you migrated from "6_rel to 7_rel". Do you mean > 7.0-RELEASE, or are you referring to the RELENG_7 tag? What tag are you > following when doing csup/cvsup? > > CC'ing John as well. > > -- > | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | > | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | > | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | > | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | > > > Hello, Sorry for the delay in reporting back. I have the following line in my cvsup,.conf file: *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7 I have a copy of my cvsup conf file at http://blackk.union.edu/~black/freebsd/raging/cvsup.conf I had a /boot.conf file that contained "-D" I deleted the file and tried to boot with the new /boot/loader with no luck. When I copied the old /boot/loader it came up fine. The system is i386. I have a copy of my kernel config file at http://blackk.union.edu/~black/freebsd/raging/BLACK I tried to do dmesg and make it available, but it gives me this message: calcru: runtime went backwards from 331 usec to 327 usec for pid 0 (swapper) Sincerely, Kel -- _______________________________________________________ Kelly Black Phone: (518) 388-8727 Department of Mathematics FAX: (603) 388-6005 Union College e-mail: kelly.black@union.edu Schenectady NY 12308 (USA) WWW: http://blackk.union.edu/~black
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?1b1b33f10806300726w6fc7098ajab9756a701f0d29f>