Re: System borked: loader stack overflow.

2009-01-20 Thread Andrew Lankford
I suppose that was what was required with XP (normally used boot0, but tinkered with using windows boot as an alternate method), but I haven't had to update boot1 since I first installed everything on this laptop ...so far. Andrew Lankford Bruce Simpson wrote: Andrew Lankford wrote: FYI:

Re: System borked: loader stack overflow.

2009-01-18 Thread Jim Pingle
Andrew Thompson wrote: > Also an entry in UPDATING that a config error that was once harmless now > renders the system unbootable (without intervention). Would this also be something that mergemaster could check for and warn against? Jim ___ freebsd-sta

Re: System borked: loader stack overflow.

2009-01-18 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:18:09PM -0800, Andrew Thompson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 09:08:56PM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 02:19:23PM -0500, Andrew Lankford wrote: > > > Andrew Thompson wrote: > > ... > > > >Having the following in /boot/loader.conf triggers it for

Re: System borked: loader stack overflow.

2009-01-18 Thread Andrew Thompson
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 09:08:56PM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 02:19:23PM -0500, Andrew Lankford wrote: > > Andrew Thompson wrote: > ... > > >Having the following in /boot/loader.conf triggers it for me, > > > > > > loader_conf_files="/boot/device.hints /boot/loader.conf" >

Re: System borked: loader stack overflow.

2009-01-18 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 02:19:23PM -0500, Andrew Lankford wrote: > Andrew Thompson wrote: ... > >Having the following in /boot/loader.conf triggers it for me, > > > > loader_conf_files="/boot/device.hints /boot/loader.conf" > > > >You may say thats its an invalid config line but the loader shouldnt

Re: System borked: loader stack overflow.

2009-01-18 Thread Andrew Lankford
Andrew Thompson wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 05:47:24PM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:38:51AM -0500, Andrew Lankford wrote: I can't say what version of the loader it is that I'm using, but (following Peter's advice, thanks), I've tried loader.old (about a week

Re: System borked: loader stack overflow.

2009-01-18 Thread Andrew Thompson
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 05:47:24PM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:38:51AM -0500, Andrew Lankford wrote: > > > > I can't say what version of the loader it is that I'm using, but > > (following Peter's advice, thanks), I've tried loader.old (about a week > > old) and the la

Re: System borked: loader stack overflow.

2009-01-18 Thread Andrew Lankford
Shortened my loader.conf to the bare essentials and now I'm back in business! Still curious whether redefining loader_conf_files (which I suppose should only be defined in the default loader.conf) caused the problem or whether it was something else. Thanks, Andrew Lankford __

Re: System borked: loader stack overflow.

2009-01-18 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Andrew Lankford wrote: I can't say what version of the loader it is that I'm using, but (following Peter's advice, thanks), I've tried loader.old (about a week old) and the latest loader (built yesterday), and both start. Where each loader has a problem appears to be read

Re: System borked: loader stack overflow.

2009-01-18 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 05:47:24PM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:38:51AM -0500, Andrew Lankford wrote: > > > > I can't say what version of the loader it is that I'm using, but > > (following Peter's advice, thanks), I've tried loader.old (about a week > > old) and the la

Re: System borked: loader stack overflow.

2009-01-18 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:38:51AM -0500, Andrew Lankford wrote: > > I can't say what version of the loader it is that I'm using, but > (following Peter's advice, thanks), I've tried loader.old (about a week > old) and the latest loader (built yesterday), and both start. Where > each loader ha

Re: System borked: loader stack overflow.

2009-01-18 Thread Andrew Lankford
The cpu I'm using is: CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz (2194.52-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x6fb Stepping = 11 Features=0xbfebfbff Features2=0xe3bd AMD Features=0x2010 AMD Features2=0x1 Cores per package: 2 real memory = 2137444352 (2038 M

Re: System borked: loader stack overflow.

2009-01-18 Thread Andrew Lankford
I can't say what version of the loader it is that I'm using, but (following Peter's advice, thanks), I've tried loader.old (about a week old) and the latest loader (built yesterday), and both start. Where each loader has a problem appears to be reading (include-ing?) /boot/default/loader.con

Re: System borked: loader stack overflow.

2009-01-18 Thread Jack L.
I got the same thing. I put only the options I needed into loader.conf and it booted fine. On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:09:52PM -0500, Andrew Lankford wrote: >> After rebuilding world from 7-stable after cvsup, I can no longer boot. >> The loade

Re: System borked: loader stack overflow.

2009-01-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2009-Jan-17 22:09:52 -0500, Andrew Lankford wrote: >After rebuilding world from 7-stable after cvsup, I can no longer boot. >The loader tries to load the kernel but instead locks up with a stack >overflow. Wish I could send more details, but I'll have to find another >way to boot up my s

Re: System borked: loader stack overflow.

2009-01-18 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:09:52PM -0500, Andrew Lankford wrote: > After rebuilding world from 7-stable after cvsup, I can no longer boot. > The loader tries to load the kernel but instead locks up with a stack > overflow. Wish I could send more details, but I'll have to find another > way to