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Date:      Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:51:12 -0500 (EST)
From:      John McCall <rjmccall@andrew.cmu.edu>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: i386 boot failure 
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44L-027.0301171148320.7042-100000@unix46.andrew.cmu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200301171644.h0HGiNaX034857@grimreaper.grondar.org>

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On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Mark Murray wrote:
> > I've recently been trying to bring a system of mine (4.7-R) up-to-date
> > with -CURRENT by following the dotted lines in UPDATING;  basically,
> > everything up through 'make installkernel' and the 'make install' from
> > /usr/src/sys/boot has gone fine;  I reboot into loader(8) and 'boot -s',
> > but literally just after printing its "I just loaded acpi.ko" message the
> > system just hangs at a twiddle-prompt, forever stilled.  Well, not quite:
> > the keyboard lights blink once and the hard drives click, but no further
> > response.  This isn't an ACPI problem;  I've unset acpi_load, and the only
> > difference is that the system spins for half a second longer before dying.
> > loader claims to have preloaded the (new) kernel already.
>
> [ snip ]
>
> > # Pseudo devices - the number indicates how many units to allocate.device		random		# Entropy device
>
> This looks funny. What happens if you load the random device?

Ack, sorry.  That's a snipping artifact;  the actual conf file has these
as two separate lines, and random.ko is in fact present in /boot/kernel/.

John.
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