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Date:      Sat, 16 Sep 2000 11:27:59 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>
To:        Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely5.cicely.de>
Cc:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com>, alpha@freebsd.org, dcs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Loader badly broken on the alpha
Message-ID:  <20000916112759.B427@freebie.demon.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20000916092354.A65727@cicely5.cicely.de>; from ticso@cicely5.cicely.de on Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 09:23:54AM %2B0200
References:  <200009160220.TAA42547@pike.osd.bsdi.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009152002370.75789-100000@beppo.feral.com> <20000916092354.A65727@cicely5.cicely.de>

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On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 09:23:54AM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 08:02:59PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, John Baldwin wrote:

> > > I heard you, which is why I wasn't surprised when it died on me, but
> > > I hadn't seen it myself yet.  Also, I tried to pinpoint what revision
> > > broke it but failed in my attempts to do so and wanted to try to communicate
> > > that to hopefully make it easier to pinpoint when it did actually break.
> > > If that makes any sense.
> > 
> > Yes. Like I said, I shouldn't have sent the above mail. Sorry.
> 
> I had a world from the 8th septempber running.
> After updating to the 13th it broke for me.
> Using the older loader did not help.
> Removing all 4th files and references work - beside that I had to
> set device.hints in loader.rc.
> With the kernel source from yesterday (World still from 13th) the kernel
> now gets installed as /boot/kernel/kernel instead of kernel.ko and the
> loader paniced similar because it was not able to load the kernel!
> I thought that we might have a similar unavailable file reference now with
> the 4th files.

Great :-( I nuked my -current box yesterday with the same loader problems.
I promised billf to test the tx driver but now I'm screwed it seems.

Any good suggestions to fix this loader thing short of reinstalling 4.1
first?

-- 
Wilko Bulte  	 					wilko@freebsd.org
							Arnhem, the Netherlands


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