Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 12:29:22 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> To: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely5.cicely.de> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>, Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, alpha@freebsd.org, dcs@freebsd.orggg Subject: Re: Loader badly broken on the alpha Message-ID: <200009161929.MAA23231@pike.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <20000916205531.B66584@cicely5.cicely.de> from Bernd Walter at "Sep 16, 2000 08:55:31 pm"
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Bernd Walter wrote: > On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 11:31:27AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > > Bernd Walter wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 11:27:59AM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > 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? > > > > > > I had the real luck to have an ancient loader from April on the disk. > > > It did not understood some configfiles and stopped with an prompt. > > > Then I had to do the set commands for the device hints. > > > > > > You should try offering a loader from a disk and then switching disks > > > on the loader prompt. > > > > You can't do that with SRM. :( SRM only tells you about your boot > > device, unlike the x86 BIOS which lets you talk to all the devices it > > knows about. > > Mmmh - Bad. > Then the first place is the kernel root mount where we can change drives > so the kernel need to be on the disk too. Yep, and in this case, the loader is dying before it even gets to that point. :-( -- John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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