Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:27:50 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: does anybody understand why install failed? Message-ID: <20101012012750.GA3216@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20101012030224.465bc805.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20101012005311.GA1271@thought.org> <20101012030224.465bc805.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 03:02:24AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:53:11 -0700, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote: > > Having netwoking problems... . hope this gets out. > > It does. > > > The problem seems to appear when installing the ZFS boot loader. Which is? I don't think I chose any boot loader when I installed this last November... glad this got out! (I *do* have a base arrow on the console, but w hen I bring up my old ctwm wm, the arrow is still frozen. [This is on ethic; the stuff below is on my old desktop, tao. Nice to have at least one spare to experiment with.] > > > ===> sys/boot/i386/zfsboot (install) > > btxld -v -E 0x2000 -f bin -b /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/zfsboot/../btx/btx/btx -l zfsboot.ldr -o zfsboot.ld -P 1 zfsboot.bin > > btxld:No such file or directory > > *** Error code 1 > > > > Stop in /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/zfsboot. > > *** Error code 1 > > > > Stop in /usr/src/sys/boot/i386. > > *** Error code 1 > > > > Stop in /usr/src/sys/boot. > > *** Error code 1 > > > > Stop in /usr/src/sys. > > *** Error code 1 > > > > Stop in /usr/src. > > *** Error code 1 > > > > Stop in /usr/src. > > *** Error code 1 > > > > Stop in /usr/src. > > *** Error code 1 > > > > Stop in /usr/src. > > Are you performing the "make install" stage in single user mode > as recommended? The btxld binary is /usr/sbin/btxld. > > If you're not using ZFS on your system, you can easily omit it > by setting > > WITHOUT_ZFS=1 > > in /etc/src.conf; refer to "man src.conf" for more details about > the system's building control file, as there may be other things > you intendedly want to switch off. > I'll ck out the src.conf; never heard of it... thanks for the clue. > Mm. I'm using very, very old instructions. I used this last Feb, but it dates from March, '04! :: cd /usr/src; \ make buildworld; make buildkernel KERNCONF=TAO; make installkernel KERNCONF=TAO; reboot ; then go single cd /usr/src; \ make installworld; mergemaster reboot > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.90a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org
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