Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 19:49:05 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> To: asmodai@wxs.nl (Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai) Cc: rnordier@nordier.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, mike@smith.net.au Subject: Re: Bootblocks / Bootloader Message-ID: <199901031749.TAA04737@ceia.nordier.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990103171208.asmodai@wxs.nl> from Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai at "Jan 3, 99 05:12:08 pm"
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Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
> >> boot:
> >>
> >> Booting 0:da(0,a)/boot/loader @ 0x100000
> >> text=0x1000 data=0x1c000 bss=0x00 symbols=[0x0+0x4+0x0+0x4+0xff8c]
> >>
> >> Can't find file /boot/loader.config
> >> total=0x12cf94 entry point=0x100000
> >>
> >> BTX loader
> >>
> >> ... [looks good]
> >> bootstrap loader revision 0.2
> >
> > These messages indicate that you *don't* have the new boot blocks
> > installed, but the old ones.
>
> Now I don't know anymore... I do however have a totally different boot
> process than I had before... So now I am lost... I was about to write a short
> document about it, but I guess that will now be incorrect ;)
>
> Any hints/tips?
I've put up some brief instructions on updating the boot blocks at
http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt
though I'll try to expand these in the next ~8 hours.
I'd suggest just redoing the steps mentioned there, and you'll
probably pick up where things went wrong.
Bear in mind that, most of the time, the new boot blocks simply
pass control to /boot/loader. You can use *recent* versions of
the old boot blocks to start /boot/loader as well.
A primary advantage of installing the new boot blocks is that they
can load both aout and ELF kernels themselves, if necessary. So,
if /boot/loader is temporarily broken, or your root file system
is corrupted, you have a better chance of booting.
--
Robert Nordier
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