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Date:      Wed, 7 Feb 2001 11:17:53 +0100
From:      Michel Talon <michel@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Weird kernel problem
Message-ID:  <20010207111753.B497@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102070941050.55653-100000@plato.salford.ac.uk>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102070941050.55653-100000@plato.salford.ac.uk>

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On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 09:48:26AM +0000, Mark Powell wrote:
> Hi,
>   Had a machine on which top hasn't been working for a while. I thought
> maybe I'd not rebuilt the system properly, so I brought it and another
> machine up to date with 4.2S yesterday. Did make world on both and rebuilt
> their kernels, both from the same config file. They should both be the
> same after that, right?
>   Now both are rebooted top still fails with "top: nlist
> failed". Strangely, in memory the kernel is rather large:
> 

Probably you load the kernel with the boot blocks on one machine and with
/boot/loader on the other one. Unfortunately the first method does not work
any more and you need to use loader even if you don't need any of its
features.
I intend to see if grub is able to load the kernel without these problems.


-- 
Michel Talon


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