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Date:      Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:20:25 -0400
From:      =?UTF-8?B?6Z+T5a625qiZIEJpbGwgSGFja2Vy?= <askbill@conducive.net>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Loader broken in Head?
Message-ID:  <4722AE79.5020709@conducive.net>
In-Reply-To: <575715.97141.qm@web27805.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
References:  <575715.97141.qm@web27805.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

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Red Neck wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Within the last day (26/10/07) I've built and installed the sources from CVS
> Head only to find the stage 3 boot loader, /boot/loader, not working.  I'm
> using a Mac Pro with 3 internal hard drives.  On one hard disk I have FreeBSD
> amd64 installed, occupying the entire disk (MBR).  Using the sources from
> Head, loader just freezes after displaying its initial messages with a
> constantly spinning cursor.  To access the system I have to revert to using
> an older loader such as 6.2 release's.  I have attached my make and kernel
> config.
> 
> Can anyone provide any help?  I'm quite prepared to help test fixes.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> RedNeck
> 
> 

Not unique to a Mac. Asus P5K, Intel Quad, one WD PATA, one SATA.

Same behaviour, same short-tem fix. Repeatable.

Then buildworld stopped working around a day later - about 2-3 days ago.

jp and dk mirrors used...

'Waiting'

Bill Hacker

......white socks and Blue Ribbon Beer.....



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