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Date:      Thu, 7 Aug 2003 11:01:47 +0200 (CEST)
From:      "Florian Smeets" <flo@kasimir.com>
To:        <l.ertl@univie.ac.at>
Cc:        gordon@bsd-network.org
Subject:   Re: -current want't boot this morning
Message-ID:  <28614.192.109.216.9.1060246907.squirrel@webmail.kasimir.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030807103756.B595@korben.in.tern>
References:  <20030807082313.GA587@aurora.bsd-network.org> <20030807103756.B595@korben.in.tern>

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<quote who="Lukas Ertl">
> On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Gordon Bergling wrote:
>
>> I tried to boot my -current this morning but the boot process only
>> goes to bootmgr. She shows normal
>>
>> F1	FreeBSD
>> F2	Other		(not sure if this is (Other||Unknown)
>>
>> After pressing F1-Key the computer resets himself. I tried to wait but
>> on autoboot the same thing happens.
>
> Let me guess: your swap partition is the first partition?
>
>> The -current was build yesterday with recent sources.
>
> You need to boot a fixit floppy and re-write your bootblocks. Then
> cvsup to the very latest -current. This problem should be fixed
> already.
>

shouldn't we mention this in UPDATING, since this is geting an FAQ ?

regards,
flo




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