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Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 21:57:41 -0500 (EST)
From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To: Michael Reifenberger <root@nihil.plaut.de>
Subject: RE: Making bootable recovery CD using cdboot/loader fails
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On 05-Feb-02 Michael Reifenberger wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
>> Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 18:47:25 -0500 (EST)
>> From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
>> To: Michael Reifenberger <root@nihil.plaut.de>
>> Cc: FreeBSD-Current <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
>> Subject: RE: Making bootable recovery CD using cdboot/loader fails
> ...
>> and let mkisofs create its own boot.catalog.  If you do that instead of
>> creating one yourself does it work any better?  If not, then you can revert
>> the
>> revisions that turned off all the debugging output, hook up a serial console
>> on
>> COM1, and prepare to be spammed with lots of debug output. :)
> Doesnt matter who creates boot.catalog. Same Sysmptom.
> But its not cdboot which freezes.
> Its the loader after showing:
> ...
> loader Revision...
> (root@nihil, ...)
> ...
> And then a few rotating -\|/ (serching or loading loader.conf, kernel, ?)
> Then silence.

Hmm.  Is your loader completely up to date?  Does it have a BIOS CD device cd0
in the output prior to that line?

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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