Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 19:20:52 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: jmanley@metronet.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.1-RC hangs on boot Message-ID: <3973BF04.ABFD8D12@urx.com> References: <00071721060100.00422@darkstar.metronet.com>
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Jim Manley wrote:
>
> Okay. After gleaning the mail archives of the last two weeks, I managed to
> sort out what was required to get a kernel built to with the post 7/6 sources.
>
> I cvsup'd my 4.0-stable sources on 7/11 and used the following procedure
> to build sources and kernel:
>
> # make buildworld (no problems encountered here)
> # make buildkernel KERNEL=MYKERNEL (no problems)
> # make installkernel KERNEL=MYKERNEL (Now I had a kernel called "MYKERNEL" in /)
> # cd /
> # chflags noschg kernel
> # mv kernel kernel.old
> # chflags noschg MYKERNEL
> # mv MYKERNEL kernel
> # chflags schg kernel
> # shutdown now
I hope you cd'ed back to /usr/src
Kent
> # make installworld (no problems here)
> # mergemaster (basically installed all the updated files except /etc/rc.conf,
> /etc/hosts, and a few others that I had previously modified)
> # reboot
>
> Here's where things went to hell in a handbasket. The system loads the new
> kernel and starts to boot. On the screen, I get to
>
> 'Doing inital network setup: hostname ."
>
> and it hangs up. Won't respond to the keyboard. I have to reset the hardware
> to recover.
>
> I've gone through the rc.network script and, by placing a judicious number of
> "echo" commands, found that I'm getting to the portion of the script that deals
> with DHCP:
>
> dhcp_interfaces=""
> for ifn in ${network_interfaces}; do
> if [ -r /etc/start_if.${ifn} ]; then
> . /etc/start_if.${ifn}
> eval showstat_$ifn=1
> fi
>
> # Do the primary ifconfig if specified
> #
> eval ifconfig_args=\$ifconfig_${ifn}
> echo $ifconfig_args #jim added
>
> I know I'm getting this far since the echo statement I added spews out values
> for $ifconfig_args.
>
> case ${ifconfig_args} in
> '')
> ;;
> [Dd][Hh][Cc][Pp])
> # DHCP inits are done all in one go below
> dhcp_interfaces="$dhcp_interfaces $ifn"
> eval showstat_$ifn=1
> ;;
>
> Don't use DHCP so it's not set in either /etc/defaults/rc.conf or /etc/rc.conf.
>
> *)
> ifconfig ${ifn} ${ifconfig_args}
>
> Here's where things die since I never get the output of the ifconfig command
> that I do when I boot the old (pre 7/6 4.0-stable) kernel file.
>
> eval showstat_$ifn=1
> ;;
> esac
> done
>
> If I reboot the machine and load /kernel.old, everything works just fine (well,
> I did have to turn off the linux emulation).
>
> I've gone through the email archives since 7/1 and haven't found where anyone
> else has reported a similar problem.
>
> If anybody has any ideas, I'd appreciate the help.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim
>
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