From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Oct 20 6:43:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from dirac.th.physik.uni-bonn.de (dirac.th.physik.uni-bonn.de [131.220.161.119]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B74337B4D7 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 06:43:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 33091 invoked from network); 20 Oct 2000 13:43:06 -0000 Received: from pauli.th.physik.uni-bonn.de (131.220.161.122) by dirac.th.physik.uni-bonn.de with SMTP; 20 Oct 2000 13:43:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 44591 invoked by uid 146); 20 Oct 2000 13:43:06 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Oct 2000 13:43:06 -0000 Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 15:43:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Ralph Schreyer To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, Jan Conrad Subject: Re: Can't boot FreeBSD 4.1.1 release on a digital 433au In-Reply-To: <14831.14206.254128.544680@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello Drew we exchanged /boot/loader and /boot/boot1 separately for the versions on http://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin (which are of the older FreeBSD 4.1 release), but in both cases we got an error message similar to the one at the end of this mail and the boot aborted. But if we exchange both files for the older versions, the machine boots successfully aside from the error message Loader version 1.1+ required Aborted! start not found Hit [Enter]... which seems to have no consequences. So, thank you very much for your immediate help, Ralph. ________________________________________________________________________ On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > 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 > > Drew > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message