Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 09:24:40 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> Cc: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely5.cicely.de>, Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, dcs@FreeBSD.ORGG Subject: Re: Loader badly broken on the alpha Message-ID: <200009161624.JAA19314@pike.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <20000916112759.B427@freebie.demon.nl> from Wilko Bulte at "Sep 16, 2000 11:27:59 am"
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Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 09:23:54AM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 08:02:59PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > > I heard you, which is why I wasn't surprised when it died on me, but > > > > I hadn't seen it myself yet. Also, I tried to pinpoint what revision > > > > broke it but failed in my attempts to do so and wanted to try to communicate > > > > that to hopefully make it easier to pinpoint when it did actually break. > > > > If that makes any sense. > > > > > > Yes. Like I said, I shouldn't have sent the above mail. Sorry. > > > > I had a world from the 8th septempber running. > > After updating to the 13th it broke for me. > > Using the older loader did not help. > > Removing all 4th files and references work - beside that I had to > > set device.hints in loader.rc. > > With the kernel source from yesterday (World still from 13th) the kernel > > now gets installed as /boot/kernel/kernel instead of kernel.ko and the > > loader paniced similar because it was not able to load the kernel! > > I thought that we might have a similar unavailable file reference now with > > the 4th files. > > Great :-( I nuked my -current box yesterday with the same loader problems. > I promised billf to test the tx driver but now I'm screwed it seems. > > Any good suggestions to fix this loader thing short of reinstalling 4.1 > first? Boot teh 4.0 CD's. Use the live filesystem CD fixit option. Then do this: # mount /dist/dev/da0a /mnt # cp /dist/boot/loader /mnt/boot/loader # cd /mnt/boot # /dist/bin/sed -e 's/^/set /' device.hints > hints Reboot. The 4.0 loader doesn't have 4th support, so it will ignore all the 4th files. Break into a loader prompt, type 'include hints' to set all your hints. Then 'boot /boot/mykernelname/kernel'. > -- > Wilko Bulte wilko@freebsd.org -- John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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