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Date:      Thu, 19 Oct 2000 14:12:30 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Ralph Schreyer <schreyer@th.physik.uni-bonn.de>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, Jan Conrad <conrad@th.physik.uni-bonn.de>
Subject:   Re: Can't boot FreeBSD 4.1.1 release on a digital 433au
Message-ID:  <14831.14206.254128.544680@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010191727010.36213-100000@pauli.th.physik.uni-bonn.de>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010191727010.36213-100000@pauli.th.physik.uni-bonn.de>

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Ralph Schreyer writes:
 > Hello,
 > 
 > I installed FreeBSD 4.1.1 release on a digital 433au using the kern and
 > mfsroot floppies. Trying to boot from the SRM console I get the following
 > messages:
 > 
 > 
 > loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
 > Unable to load a kernel!
 > 
 > Can't load 'kernel'
 > 
 > Halted CPU 0
 > 
 > Halt code = 2
 > Kernel stack not valid halt 
 > 
 > 
 > Apart from this everything works, i.e. with the fixit floppy (mounted via
 > NFS) I can mount the devices and all the partitions created are there. Any
 > hints? Thanks,

The boot loader is broken.  Its not clear if its boot1 or /boot/loader
which is broken.  /boot/loader is marginally easier to replace, so
lets try that first.  I've left an older, working, loader at
http://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/loader.gz
Grab it, gunzip it, and overwrite /boot/loader with it.

Please let me know if that works.  If it does not,
please take a copy of http://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/boot1
then install it /boot/boot1 and run disklabel -B <root disk>

Drew


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