Re: Problem with /boot/loader
- From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:54:41 -0700
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 02:34:44PM -0400, Kelly Black wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Kelly Black <kjblack@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a problem with loader. I recently upgraded from 6_rel to 7_rel.[snip]
Now when I install world there is a problem booting.
Here is what I do:
Now when I reboot there is a problem. I get an error that the system
cannot boot. Part of it looks like this:
Can't work out which disk we are booting from.
Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes, defaulting to disk0:
If I boot from a live disk and replace /boot/loader with
/boot/loader.old it boots up fine and everything looks good. A new
world and a new kernel. I would be grateful for any help or any
pointers.
What do you have in /etc/make.conf? I recall there being a point in
time where incorrect CFLAGS options could build a broken loader.
Try renaming /etc/make.conf (or just commenting out all
CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS options) and rebuilding either just the loader or the
whole world, and see if that makes a difference.
Hello,
Thank you for the reply. I put my make.conf file back to its default
when I first did the upgrade to avoid other kinds of problems:
make.conf
# added by use.perl 2008-04-07 11:54:35
PERL_VER=5.8.8
PERL_VERSION=5.8.8
And it still produced the loader that does not load.
Kelly,
A couple things:
I'm wondering if you're getting bit by changes made to loader(8) by John
Baldwin last year. Those changes were positive and increased
compatibility with systems greatly, but there were a couple reports of
users whose systems preferred the old "method" used. Those changes are
documented here; and yes, I realise you don't get a screen full of
continual register dumps, but different people saw different behaviour:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/Commonly_reported_issues
Also see these mailing list threads:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-October/078755.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-November/038214.html
Secondly, you said you migrated from "6_rel to 7_rel". Do you mean
7.0-RELEASE, or are you referring to the RELENG_7 tag? What tag are you
following when doing csup/cvsup?
CC'ing John as well.
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