Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 16:10:55 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim <dmp@pantherdragon.org> To: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Todays RELENG_4_6 can't boot with ncr810 on kernel.GENERIC Message-ID: <3D49BFFF.F2BEEEE7@pantherdragon.org> References: <20020802021836.Y65857-100000@woozle.rinet.ru>
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Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > > On 2 Aug 2002, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > DS> Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> writes: > DS> > For the reference, I'd solved the problem by inserting floppy drive, boot > DS> > from 4.6-R install floppies, fixit, and ftp kernel with sym from build > DS> > machine. > DS> > DS> Couldn't you just boot kernel.old and use that to build and install a > DS> kernel with the appropriate driver? > > Of course, your're [almost] right in your assumption. However, as I said, > there's extremely unlucky day [tm] ;-P -- old kernel somehow didn't > managed to boot properly. So, I've found myself with a [vital] machine > without either bootable kernel or floppy drive. > > Anyway, main point of my posting was pointing out the fact that kernel > built from today's RELENG_4_6 GENERIC probed ncr _before_ sym. Which > leads to trouble, you see. The first time I went up to -stable, GENERIC wouldn't boot because I need some specific compile-time adjustments and driver settings that GENERIC doesn't have. So now I build and install /kernel.GENERIC, then build and install my normal kernel as /kernel. This works very well, and it gives me GENERIC sitting back there if I need it. I also build an emergency kernel, installed to /kernel.emerg, which is an unstripped super-noisy debug kernel tuned to be as conservative as possible. It as all the non-essential stuff removed and doesn't need to kldload anything. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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