From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 14 15:01:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAF7716A420 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:01:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [83.120.8.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3CFF43D46 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:00:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (zyrozo@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1EF0rve065150 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:00:58 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k1EF0rJr065149; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:00:53 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:00:53 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200602141500.k1EF0rJr065149@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Newsgroups: 4.x /boot/loader + 6.1-BETA kernel User-Agent: tin/1.8.0-20051224 ("Ronay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.11-STABLE (i386)) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:00:58 +0100 (CET) Cc: Subject: Re: BETA1 announcement X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:01:00 -0000 Hi, I tried loading a 6.1-BETA1 kernel (the default GENERIC kernel from the BETA1 distribution) on a system with the /boot directory (including /boot/loader) from a 4.x installation. To be exact, it's 4.9-RELEASE. It didn't work. The kernel didn't even print the copyright line or anything else, it just hung. Is that expected behaviour? Can a 6.x kernel not be loaded with the 4.x boot infrastructure? To be honest, I had expected that the kernel at least booted into single user mode. Or maybe that it panicked when trying to execute init(8). Or maybe even earlier, but I didn't expect that it hangs immediately. What's happening there? Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'