Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 14:23:15 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: anyone seen this? Makes system unbooable. Message-ID: <XFMail.011231142315.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0112311342300.94344-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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On 31-Dec-01 Julian Elischer wrote: > I just did a "make buildworld; make installworld; mergemaster" > > I am not at home at teh moment and the laptop is the only machine there > so the serial; cable wouldn't help much.. > I will re-install it and try it again with your suggested hack > > As for what's there I'm not kidding when I say "too fast for my neurons". > It flashes past so quickly I;m not completely sure at all what I'm seeing. > CDROM bootblocks worked fine :-) Yeah, when it reboots, it is fast. Introducing some sort of delay in exit() on i386 might not be that bad of an idea. > On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > >> >> On 31-Dec-01 Julian Elischer wrote: >> > I upgraded by cvs on saturday night, >> > Sunday I didn't use it. >> > Monday I tried to boot it. but the loader says: >> > ASSERT <mumble> >> > and the system reboots >> >> Hmm, the string "ASSERT" doesn't appear as a text string anywhere under >> /sys/boot. Hmm, libstand does have it, and the ficl library seems to use >> it. >> A serial console would save the message so you had time to read it. :) If >> you >> want to introduce a sleep, then sys/boot/i386/loader/main.c has an exit() >> function you could put a while(1) or some such in. Are you sure you don't >> have >> your loader and 4th scripts out of sync? >> >> -- >> >> John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ >> "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ >> > -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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