From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 31 14: 0:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D7EC37B427; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 14:00:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org ([12.232.206.8]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20011231220013.SOKL1920.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@InterJet.elischer.org>; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 22:00:13 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA10378; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 13:45:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 13:45:26 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: John Baldwin Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: anyone seen this? Makes system unbooable. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just did a "make buildworld; make installworld; mergemaster" I am not at home at teh moment and the laptop is the only machine there so the serial; cable wouldn't help much.. I will re-install it and try it again with your suggested hack As for what's there I'm not kidding when I say "too fast for my neurons". It flashes past so quickly I;m not completely sure at all what I'm seeing. CDROM bootblocks worked fine :-) On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 31-Dec-01 Julian Elischer wrote: > > I upgraded by cvs on saturday night, > > Sunday I didn't use it. > > Monday I tried to boot it. but the loader says: > > ASSERT > > and the system reboots > > Hmm, the string "ASSERT" doesn't appear as a text string anywhere under > /sys/boot. Hmm, libstand does have it, and the ficl library seems to use it. > A serial console would save the message so you had time to read it. :) If you > want to introduce a sleep, then sys/boot/i386/loader/main.c has an exit() > function you could put a while(1) or some such in. Are you sure you don't have > your loader and 4th scripts out of sync? > > -- > > John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message