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Date:      Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:37:29 +1300
From:      Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>
To:        FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        rizzo@iet.unipi.it
Subject:   Re: Broken loader on 7.1-STABLE?
Message-ID:  <498F5EA9.3020003@paradise.net.nz>
In-Reply-To: <498E59F0.30700@paradise.net.nz>
References:  <20090109171857.GA49752@marvin.eastcentral.edu> <4975ADF4.1070103@paradise.net.nz> <4976CB1C.7050409@paradise.net.nz> <498E59F0.30700@paradise.net.nz>

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Mark Kirkwood wrote:
>
>  ...specifying /boot/loader.old got me booted ok (not sure why this 
> *didn't* work with the Asus, maybe I need to try it again with the Feb 
> sources).
>
>

I tried the latest RELENG_7 sources, same result - does *not* boot even 
specifying the old loader. I spent a bit of time narrowing down why. I'd 
previously noted that an empty loader.conf was sufficient to get it to 
boot again. After some experimentation I discovered that this line in 
loader.conf:

sound_load="YES"

made the boot with the old loader fail (loading the sound module after 
booting seems to work ok).

The box is an Asus a8vx with amd64 x2 3800+, running i386.

regards

Mark



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