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Date:      Sun, 24 Jan 1999 13:39:20 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Pascal Hofstee <daeron@Wit401305.student.utwente.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Bootstrap loader problems on CURRENT
Message-ID:  <36AAA3F8.14D589D8@newsguy.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901232123020.291-100000@Wit401305.student.utwente.nl>

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Pascal Hofstee wrote:
> 
> As of Today's 4.0-CURRENT My system Halts on boot-up after the BTX Driver
> showing my BIOS-drives, with the following message:
> 
> FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.2
> (daeron@shadowmere..... etc...)
> ficlExecFD: Error at line 1
> 
> then it shows a lot of Register-information with the message
> 
> System halted
> 
> this is when trying to execute boot/loader
> 
> When I am fast enough on the Boot-Manager Boot-prompt .. I am able to
> simply type /kernel   instead of 0:wd(0,a)/boot/loader  and my System Will
> boot the 4.0-kernel and run fine.

This is most likely my fault. The only place where ficlExecFD gets
executed is during initialization, when loading /boot/boot.4th. What
do you have there? I suppose you have no trouble booting if you
rename that file, correct? 

I suspect you have a "builtin command" (those shown by ?) in the
first line of that file, and with my recent changes, these commands
have evidenced a bug in ficl, which I have been delaying dealing
with until I get an answer from ficl's author.

If that file is essential to you (and it's contents cannot be placed
in loader.rc), I'll send you a patch that should get you going, for
now.

BTW, ficl's builtin command behavior got changed. I was avoiding
bugging Mike to up loader's version (which is now available with
"loader_version environment?") until I could change "include" to
process fourth source, instead of just builtins, and *that* depends
on the above mentioned bug getting fixed.

--
Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
dcs@newsguy.com

	If you sell your soul to the Devil and all you get is an MCSE from
it, you haven't gotten market rate.


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