Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 04:42:04 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BETA1 announcement Message-ID: <20060215094204.GA21228@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200602150915.k1F9FDLD011714@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <20060214193639.GB99387@xor.obsecurity.org> <200602150915.k1F9FDLD011714@lurza.secnetix.de>
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--YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 10:15:13AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: > > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > 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. > > >=20 > > > It didn't work. The kernel didn't even print the copyright > > > line or anything else, it just hung. Is that expected > > > behaviour? > >=20 > > Yes, I think so. > >=20 > > One problem is that the hints will be missing, so you won't get a > > console. >=20 > Ah, I forgot about the hints file and that it is required > for console. Thanks for pointing that out. >=20 > > If you compiled them into your kernel you might have had > > better luck, but it's still not supported. >=20 > Well, I didn't compile anything. I just took the install > kernel from the BETA1 distributiin (which is compiled from > GENERIC, I assume). Right, by default the hints are not compiled in. Anyway, there are other issues, like the 4.x loader will try to load /kernel instead of /boot/kernel/kernel, and maybe others. Just use the 6.1 loader instead :) Kris --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFD8vdsWry0BWjoQKURAi6OAKCLOlWgLFjWk10ri7WwyG4oFGXcTQCgul1g idbdbQxP015eU6AWk0JBYnY= =vK77 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK--
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