Newest loader from CVS not working

Darren Pilgrim dmp at bitfreak.org
Mon May 23 14:41:17 PDT 2005


From: Darren Pilgrim
> From: Alexander Leidinger [mailto:Alexander at Leidinger.net]
> >
> > Can you please try if you get a broken loader when you 
> > remove the question mark from the CPUTYPE line?
> 
> That's not correct usage of the define, though.  The question 
> mark is there so that the value in make.conf is used only if
> it isn't already set, presumably on the command line or in
> another makefile.
> 
> Just the same, I'll rebuild the loader without the ? and see 
> if it breaks.

I changed CPUTYPE?=pentium-m to CPUTYPE=pentium-m, then did:

# cd /usr/src/sys/boot/i386 && make && make install

I then rebooted and it worked fine.

Should I try using the FreeBSD MBR?

Do I need to perform additional steps to properly install a new version of
the loader?




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