Newest loader from CVS not working

[Stefan Ehmann]

On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 23:40 -0400, David Gurvich wrote:
> On Sunday 22 May 2005 14:45, Doug White wrote:
> > On Sat, 21 May 2005, David Gurvich wrote:
> > > New cvsup cycle has not fixed the problem.  Might it have anything to do
> > > with the fact my freebsd partition is not the first partition?
> >
> > Unlikely ... are you _sure_ you updated your sources correctly and you're
> > booting the fixed loader?
> I am sure.  I had previously copied the old loader to a backup location and 
> then copied that to /boot/loader.  Then the cvsup, buildworld kernel and 
> install cycle.  The new loader does what all the previous loaders did that 
> failed to work correctly.  It would get to a point where I could either 
> escape to the #boot prompt and have it use the older loader or go into a 
> reboot cycle.  I am currently using the older loader.  Using the older loader 
> I have had no problems with the system other than KWrite crashing when doing 
> a search.

Same thing here with CPUTYPE=pentium-m on my notebook.

I'm using grub as boot loader. As soon as /boot/loader is booted, the
machine resets.

I've also seen the kwrite search crash - but don't know if this is
related.

Also, I had a similar problem with grub when I installed some months ago
from the ports. I downloaded a newer version from the homepage and
installed it manually which just worked fine (I suppose because no
cputype/optimization was set when compiling by hand).

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Stefan Ehmann