From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 1 16:11: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A19137B401 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 16:11:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spork.pantherdragon.org (spork.pantherdragon.org [206.29.168.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6821E43E3B for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 16:11:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmp@pantherdragon.org) Received: from sparx.pantherdragon.org (evrtwa1-ar10-4-61-252-210.evrtwa1.dsl-verizon.net [4.61.252.210]) by spork.pantherdragon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4122471DE; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 16:11:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pantherdragon.org (speck.techno.pagans [172.21.42.2]) by sparx.pantherdragon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C40BC10022; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 16:10:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3D49BFFF.F2BEEEE7@pantherdragon.org> Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 16:10:55 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dmitry Morozovsky Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Todays RELENG_4_6 can't boot with ncr810 on kernel.GENERIC References: <20020802021836.Y65857-100000@woozle.rinet.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > > On 2 Aug 2002, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > DS> Dmitry Morozovsky writes: > DS> > For the reference, I'd solved the problem by inserting floppy drive, boot > DS> > from 4.6-R install floppies, fixit, and ftp kernel with sym from build > DS> > machine. > DS> > DS> Couldn't you just boot kernel.old and use that to build and install a > DS> kernel with the appropriate driver? > > Of course, your're [almost] right in your assumption. However, as I said, > there's extremely unlucky day [tm] ;-P -- old kernel somehow didn't > managed to boot properly. So, I've found myself with a [vital] machine > without either bootable kernel or floppy drive. > > Anyway, main point of my posting was pointing out the fact that kernel > built from today's RELENG_4_6 GENERIC probed ncr _before_ sym. Which > leads to trouble, you see. The first time I went up to -stable, GENERIC wouldn't boot because I need some specific compile-time adjustments and driver settings that GENERIC doesn't have. So now I build and install /kernel.GENERIC, then build and install my normal kernel as /kernel. This works very well, and it gives me GENERIC sitting back there if I need it. I also build an emergency kernel, installed to /kernel.emerg, which is an unstripped super-noisy debug kernel tuned to be as conservative as possible. It as all the non-essential stuff removed and doesn't need to kldload anything. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message