Loader broken in Head?
韓家標 Bill Hacker
askbill at conducive.net
Fri Oct 26 20:20:28 PDT 2007
Red Neck wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Within the last day (26/10/07) I've built and installed the sources from CVS
> Head only to find the stage 3 boot loader, /boot/loader, not working. I'm
> using a Mac Pro with 3 internal hard drives. On one hard disk I have FreeBSD
> amd64 installed, occupying the entire disk (MBR). Using the sources from
> Head, loader just freezes after displaying its initial messages with a
> constantly spinning cursor. To access the system I have to revert to using
> an older loader such as 6.2 release's. I have attached my make and kernel
> config.
>
> Can anyone provide any help? I'm quite prepared to help test fixes.
>
> Thanks,
>
> RedNeck
>
>
Not unique to a Mac. Asus P5K, Intel Quad, one WD PATA, one SATA.
Same behaviour, same short-tem fix. Repeatable.
Then buildworld stopped working around a day later - about 2-3 days ago.
jp and dk mirrors used...
'Waiting'
Bill Hacker
......white socks and Blue Ribbon Beer.....
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