Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 16:17:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Adam <bsdx@looksharp.net> To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make world left me with an unbootable system Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004201616240.87221-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> In-Reply-To: <020401bfab04$007faf10$dd29680a@tgt.com>
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I was updating from a -current less than a week old and there is nothing more recent than 2 weeks olf in UPDATING, but thanks for reminding me to check. On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: >What did you update from? 3.4? Also, did you read /usr/src/UPDATING. If >you didn't, you had better go and do so. There was plenty of mention of the >change. > >Tom Veldhouse >veldy@veldy.net > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Adam <bsdx@looksharp.net> >To: <current@freebsd.org> >Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 2:55 PM >Subject: make world left me with an unbootable system > > >> Last night around midnight EST I cvsupped and did make buildworld, config >> -r'ed my kernel, compiled it, installed the kernel and did make >> installworld. I rebooted expecting the system to come up fine but it >> failed with "Invalid partition table". This was just after removing 2 of >> 3 of my dimm's becauseI thought they were causing a seperate >> problem. The system is not overclocked, but SMP. Attempting to boot >> kernel.old left me with the exact same problem. Here is what my screen >> says: >> >> Verifying DMI Pool Data ....... >> >> BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 >> Console: internal video/keyboard >> BIOS drive A: is disk0 >> BIOS drive C: is disk1 >> BIOS drive D: is disk2 >> BIOS drive E: is disk3 >> BIOS 639k/130048kB available memory >> >> FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.7 >> (user1@sapphire.looksharp.net, Thu Apr 20 01:30:00 EDT 2000) >> Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf >> /kernel >> text=0x186b9f data=0x3b81c+0x1b33c syms=[0x4+0x26000+0x4+0x2ac6c] >> - >> Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. >> Booting [kernel]... >> Invalid partition table_ >> >> where _ is the blinking cursor >> >> >> I am not afraid of using the fixit disk if I have to, but I also have a >> spare 5g disk I could toss in and install freebsd on if that would be the >> easiest way of fixing this. ANY suggestions or insight to the problem is >> appreciated! >> >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message >> > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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