From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Mar 24 19:56:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED71637B80B for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 19:56:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA17557; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 22:56:10 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id WAA13198; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 22:55:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 22:55:40 -0500 (EST) To: nm Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: catch22? In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.20000324193016.03404370@mail.vt.edu> References: <3.0.32.20000324193016.03404370@mail.vt.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14556.14268.367603.779233@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org nm writes: > > sysctl tells me that it already points to the unstripped version > (/kernel). I do not seem to have a man page for kvm_mkdb. :( Oops. I think it might be related in a way to http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=678965+0+current/freebsd-current I think the loader now needs the kernel symbols available at boot time. Have you tried making everything you can a kld & loading it after root is mounted? The nics and the filesystems are the easy part. And there is always netbooting... Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message