From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Sep 16 11:55:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.du.gtn.com (mail.du.gtn.com [194.77.9.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E66B37B422 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 11:55:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cicely.de (cicely.de [194.231.9.142]) by mail.du.gtn.com (8.11.0.Beta3/8.11.0.Beta3) with ESMTP id e8GItSQ08697 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168 bits) verified OK); Sat, 16 Sep 2000 20:55:30 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de (cicely5.cicely.de [fec0::104:200:92ff:fe9b:20e7]) by mail.cicely.de (8.11.0.Beta1/8.11.0.Beta1) with ESMTP id e8GItZI90890; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 20:55:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.11.0/8.9.2) id e8GItVb66634; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 20:55:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso) Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 20:55:31 +0200 From: Bernd Walter To: John Baldwin Cc: Wilko Bulte , Matthew Jacob , alpha@freebsd.org, dcs@freebsd.orgg Subject: Re: Loader badly broken on the alpha Message-ID: <20000916205531.B66584@cicely5.cicely.de> References: <20000916200658.B66455@cicely5.cicely.de> <200009161831.LAA21933@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200009161831.LAA21933@pike.osd.bsdi.com>; from jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com on Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 11:31:27AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 11:31:27AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > Bernd Walter wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 11:27:59AM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > 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? > > > > I had the real luck to have an ancient loader from April on the disk. > > It did not understood some configfiles and stopped with an prompt. > > Then I had to do the set commands for the device hints. > > > > You should try offering a loader from a disk and then switching disks > > on the loader prompt. > > You can't do that with SRM. :( SRM only tells you about your boot > device, unlike the x86 BIOS which lets you talk to all the devices it > knows about. Mmmh - Bad. Then the first place is the kernel root mount where we can change drives so the kernel need to be on the disk too. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message