From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 3 16:58:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cluttered.com (w024.z064002058.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net [64.2.58.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AC4737B417 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 16:58:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from orgasmotron.cluttered.com (jsd [10.10.10.3]) by cluttered.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D68CC984E for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 16:58:15 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20011203165646.00b9fce8@10.10.10.1> X-Sender: jsd@10.10.10.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 16:58:17 -0800 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jon Drukman Subject: top: nlist failed /boot/loader Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i have a newly installed 4.4-R machine (i didn't install it myself, i had the VAR do it - remind me never to do that again). i'd rather not reinstall it since it's already been colo'd. when running top, i get "nlist failed". searching archives reveals this hint: "You are not using /boot/loader to load your kernel, but doing it directly from boot2 (see /boot/loader, it generally does a better job of making the kernel symbols available to user applications.)" but no further information. how do i tell the system to use /boot/loader ? -jsd- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message