Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2025 06:14:33 -0700 From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Loading kernel seems to fail at main-n279667-7ce07c41423d Message-ID: <aKHVuYfNxaV8grbZ@albert.catwhisker.org> In-Reply-To: <aKHUIYTA2Ap_53ap@albert.catwhisker.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 06:07:45AM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote: > ... > After updating sources to main-n279667-7ce07c41423d this morning, > "buildworld" &c. was also uneventful, but the following reboot did not > actually complete: it brought up the loader menu as normal, but seems > (because it's a bit hard to tell what's going on when the screen is > blank) to fail to load and transfer control from the loader to the > kernel. Eventually, it appears to time out & (attempt a) reboot again; > absent human intervention, I expect the cycle would repeat indefinitely. > .... On the second laptop, I tried escaping to the loader prompt. I then: * Verified that nothing was loaded initially * Successully loaded /boot/kernel/kernel * Verified that "lsmod" showed that something was now loaded * Issued "boot" The machine immediately rebooted. Booting kernel.old succeeds. Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org Of course firing the statistician will force the statistics to conform! See https://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iNUEARYKAH0WIQSTLzOSbomIK53fjFliipiWhXYx5QUCaKHVuF8UgAAAAAAuAChp c3N1ZXItZnByQG5vdGF0aW9ucy5vcGVucGdwLmZpZnRoaG9yc2VtYW4ubmV0OTMy RjMzOTI2RTg5ODgyQjlEREY4QzU5NjI4QTk4OTY4NTc2MzFFNQAKCRBiipiWhXYx 5XNuAQDS05H2NcqVGwZPXFksz6LqtMaZS6oSIC09f4A1TrE9ZQD9GxSxoCw9bG/V cHveyLwhB0q+4I1Um3gg0jNiad/tfQ8= =KQSu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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