From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 25 19:21:21 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9132F1065672 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:21:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: from keltia.freenix.fr (keltia.freenix.org [IPv6:2001:660:330f:f820:213:72ff:fe15:f44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F8228FC1E for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:21:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keltia.freenix.fr (Postfix/TLS) with ESMTP id 8C7533B9A6 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:21:19 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at keltia.freenix.fr Received: from keltia.freenix.fr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (keltia.freenix.fr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 7bipQaiHlB5Y for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:21:19 +0100 (CET) Received: by keltia.freenix.fr (Postfix/TLS, from userid 101) id 365833B9A5; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:21:19 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:21:19 +0100 From: Ollivier Robert To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090125192119.GA19792@keltia.freenix.fr> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: MacOS X / Macbook Pro - FreeBSD 7 / Dell D820 SMP User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Subject: Re: /boot/loader broken in 7.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:21:21 -0000 According to Christian Laursen: > Anyway, using /boot/loader.old from 7.0 works perfectly. I have not seen > this issue on any of the other 10+ machines that I have upgraded to 7.1. The one in 7.1-STABLE (stable/7) does not even compile on amd64. Another thing to watch in stable/7 is that installworld will fail if /usr/share/locale is already populated, one has to completely remove it to complete. I discovered that when running "installworld" again with WITHOUT_BOOT=yes. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr Dons / donation Ondine : http://ondine.keltia.net/