From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 7 18:42:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail02.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail02.syd.optusnet.com.au [203.2.75.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B0F737BBE7 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 18:42:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from diskiller@borg-cube.com) Received: from bender (adlax2-058.dialup.optusnet.com.au [198.142.52.58]) by mail02.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA14697 for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 11:41:57 +1000 Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 11:11:20 +0930 (CST) From: Martin Minkus X-Sender: diskiller@bender.on.diskiller.net Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0 problems... In-Reply-To: <200004072319.QAA74474@ix.netcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > I had this problem a week ago. > > It was caused by my booting the kernel directly. > > 0:da(0,a)/kernel > > Using > > 0:da(0,a)/boot/loader > > cures the symptoms. Ooooohhh!! This explains why i get the same top: nlist failed error in 5.0. That machine's BIOS won't boot the hdd for some reason (beats the heck out o me, worked a few days ago), so i use a boot disk to boot FreeBSD 5.0 and Win2k. I just use 0:ad(0,a)/kernel. No wonder :) martin. -- Martin Minkus aka DiSKiLLeR Email: diskiller@borg-cube.com Web: http://www.diskiller.net I live in a world of paradox... my willingness to destroy is your chance for improvement, my hate is your faith, my failure is your victory - a victory that won't last. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message