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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: -current boot hosed on Alpha
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On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 05:18:34PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> Oh, OK.  So then he may have gotten screwed if he
> did a buildworld/installworld during the awk experiment, installed
> 'bad' awk, then did buildworld/installworld now & got a loader built
> with the bad awk.  Does that sound right?
> 
> Wilko.  If you can get your machine to boot, copy /boot/loader.old
> over /boot/loader and try rebuilding/reinstalling the loader without
> bothering w/a buildworld.

I would:

    hit space to get the bootblocks to not load the loader
    da(0,a)/boot/loader.old
    cd /usr/src/contrib/awk
    cvs up -PdA
    cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/awk
    cvs up -PdA
    make obj
    make all install
    reboot

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