On Thursday 23 October 2008 01:32:27 Jo Rhett wrote: > I haven't had time to investigate, but after installing 6.4RC1 on a > machine I've been using with 6.3 for a few months, it installs > painlessly but on the first and subsequent reboots you see > > BTX Loader 1.00 blah blah blah > ... > Loading /boot/defaults/loader.con > \ > > At this point you have a hard refreeze -- no keyboard control, however > I can reboot it from the Phantom card. > > System: Rackable C2004, dual Intel 2.66 processors, 4gb RAM, disk > drive on built in SCSI port > > Absolutely nothing special, boots and runs 6.2 and 6.3 without a flaw. > > I'll have more time to investigate on Friday. Anything specific that > would be more or less useful to debug in particular?
I did not investigate on this issue too much, but there is an workaround - copy older /boot/loader over newer one. In my case, I am rebuilding whole world often, and now /boot/loader seems to not build correctly for me. Older one is ~ 250 kB, rebuilt will be ~ 185 kB, and freezes. In your case, you would write old /boot/loader from 6.3 over new installed with 6.4RC1 and it will boot normally again. I know it is only workaround, but it's quick and easy, and I have not too much time to investigate any further (not to mention I have no idea what to look for and where). Regards, Milan _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
