Re: unknown command at bootstrap on 7-STABLE

On Fri, Feb 29 2008, Martin Etteldorf wrote:

Peter Wu <peterwu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, Feb 29 2008, Martin Etteldorf wrote:

Peter Wu <peterwu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Greetings,

I updated my system to 7.0 and noticed that when booting, there is an
error as follows.

,----
| FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
| (peterwu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, datetime)
| > \
| \: unknown command
| -
| /boot/kernel/kernel text=... data=... syms=[...]
| Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
| Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel] in 10 seconds ...
`----

What's the content of your /boot/loader.conf and /boot/loader.rc?

,----
| tulip:/home/peterwu>cat /boot/loader.conf
| #autoboot_delay="3"
| #loader_logo="beastie"
`----

,----
| tulip:/home/peterwu>cat /boot/loader.rc
| \ Loader.rc
| \ $FreeBSD: src/sys/boot/i386/loader/loader.rc,v 1.4.2.1 2005/10/30
| 14:37:02 scottl Exp $
| \
| \ Includes additional commands
| include /boot/loader.4th
|
| \ Reads and processes loader.conf variables
| start
|
| \ Tests for password -- executes autoboot first if a password was
| defined
| check-password
|
| \ Load in the boot menu
| include /boot/beastie.4th
|
| \ Start the boot menu
| beastie-start
`----

I didn't touch either of the 2 files during the update. Thanks!!

The error seems to be generated by the loader, so the next
thing I would investigate are the files which are included
by the loader.rc

I checked the files specified in the loader.rc file and the ones that
are included by them but didn't see anything abnormal. Since I didn't
touch any of them, I'm wondering if the new 7.0 booting process has
some compatibility issues with 6.3?

btw, is there anyway I can debug or trace the booting process so that
I can see where the error occurs? Thanks again! :)


--
Peter Wu
.

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