Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 12:55:19 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, FreeBSD Current <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Bootblocks / Bootloader Message-ID: <199901032055.MAA07348@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 03 Jan 1999 21:52:19 %2B0100." <XFMail.990103215219.asmodai@wxs.nl>
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> On 03-Jan-99 Mike Smith wrote: > > >> ... [booting kernel] > >> > >> [kernel symbol table not valid] > > > > This is actually DDB complaining that your a.out symbol table is not > > valid. You may have over-aggressively stripped your kernel, or we may > > have something going wrong that's eaten it in the load process. > > I never stripped my kernels... And this is an ELF kernel from the 2nd and > it's still giving the notice after I installed the real new bootblocks... At > least that's what I am presuming since the whole system is ELF ;) Unless you have KERNFORMAT=elf set, your kernel is still a.out. More to the point, the message that you're seeing there comes from line 99 in sys/ddb/db_aout.c. So if you have an ELF kernel going, I'm not sure why that code is being run at all. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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