-current want't boot this morning

Florian Smeets flo at kasimir.com
Thu Aug 7 02:01:14 PDT 2003


<quote who="Lukas Ertl">
> On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Gordon Bergling wrote:
>
>> I tried to boot my -current this morning but the boot process only
>> goes to bootmgr. She shows normal
>>
>> F1	FreeBSD
>> F2	Other		(not sure if this is (Other||Unknown)
>>
>> After pressing F1-Key the computer resets himself. I tried to wait but
>> on autoboot the same thing happens.
>
> Let me guess: your swap partition is the first partition?
>
>> The -current was build yesterday with recent sources.
>
> You need to boot a fixit floppy and re-write your bootblocks. Then
> cvsup to the very latest -current. This problem should be fixed
> already.
>

shouldn't we mention this in UPDATING, since this is geting an FAQ ?

regards,
flo




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