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To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
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Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 04 Apr 2000 05:18:29 +0200, Bernd Luevelsmeyer wrote:
> 
> > when starting 'top' or 'systat' on FreeBSD 4.0, they fail with 'top:
> > nlist failed' or 'systat: nlist: can't find following symbols: _cp_time
> > _ccpu _fscale'. They fail whether I'm root or not.
> 
> Either you've already had this question answered, or you're asking
> a recently asked question almost verbatim. :-)
> 
> I believe that the problem is in loading the kernel directly, instead of
> using the boot loader.  In other words, at the boot prompt you're doing
> something like
> 
>         load /kernel
> 
> instead of something like
> 
>         load /boot/loader
> 
> Ciao,
> Sheldon.
> 
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I think it would be usefull reading /usr/src/UPDATING


boot into single user and:

cd /usr/src
make -DNOINFO installworld
make installworld
exit

-- 
If you're happy, you're successful.


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