From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 10 19:14:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 310B016A40F for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:14:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7455A43DC5 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:13:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A9E41A4D8D; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 12:13:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1C0B5513F0; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 15:13:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 15:13:24 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Stefan Bethke Message-ID: <20060910191323.GA7721@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <3A8131D4-881E-4873-A682-543A1A88C063@lassitu.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3A8131D4-881E-4873-A682-543A1A88C063@lassitu.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Still possible to directly boot without loader? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:14:01 -0000 --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 09:10:26PM +0200, Stefan Bethke wrote: > I just tried to load my standard kernel from the boot blocks (instead =20 > of using loader(8)), but I either get a hang before the kernel prints =20 > anything, or a BTX halted. Is this still supposed to work in 6-=20 > stable, or has it finally disappeared? Without access to the device.hints (either from loader or compiled in) you won't have a working console (and possibly other devices), so the kernel may appear to hang while booting. Kris --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFBGPTWry0BWjoQKURAp9nAKDn6L59SvK0wMO/sYQRtO2R3I4ixACbBEMu nRtzAn/EXKK//zIjEhPpKJ8= =3k9L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs--