From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 23 20:40:34 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA08410 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 20:40:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA08405 for ; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 20:40:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id NAA18904; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 13:40:15 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36AAA3F8.14D589D8@newsguy.com> Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 13:39:20 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pascal Hofstee CC: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bootstrap loader problems on CURRENT References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message