From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Sep 16 10:53:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B3C837B423 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 10:53:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 13aM9T-0001nQ-00; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 17:53:23 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8GHpCt41803; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 19:51:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 19:51:12 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: John Baldwin Cc: Bernd Walter , Matthew Jacob , alpha@freebsd.org, dcs@FreeBSD.ORGG Subject: Re: Loader badly broken on the alpha Message-ID: <20000916195112.A41783@freebie.demon.nl> References: <20000916112759.B427@freebie.demon.nl> <200009161624.JAA19314@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200009161624.JAA19314@pike.osd.bsdi.com>; from jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com on Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 09:24:40AM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 09:24:40AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > Wilko Bulte wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 09:23:54AM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 08:02:59PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > > > > On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, John Baldwin wrote: ... > > > With the kernel source from yesterday (World still from 13th) the kernel > > > now gets installed as /boot/kernel/kernel instead of kernel.ko and the > > > loader paniced similar because it was not able to load the kernel! > > > I thought that we might have a similar unavailable file reference now with > > > the 4th files. > > > > Great :-( I nuked my -current box yesterday with the same loader problems. > > I promised billf to test the tx driver but now I'm screwed it seems. > > > > Any good suggestions to fix this loader thing short of reinstalling 4.1 > > first? > > Boot teh 4.0 CD's. Use the live filesystem CD fixit option. Then do this: > > # mount /dist/dev/da0a /mnt > # cp /dist/boot/loader /mnt/boot/loader > # cd /mnt/boot > # /dist/bin/sed -e 's/^/set /' device.hints > hints > > Reboot. The 4.0 loader doesn't have 4th support, so it will ignore all > the 4th files. Break into a loader prompt, type 'include hints' to set > all your hints. Then 'boot /boot/mykernelname/kernel'. Thanks John. Now the only thing that I lack is the live fs CD as I pulled the #1 cd as an .iso off the net :-) Time to get a full distribution set.. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@freebsd.org Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message