Weird problem upgrading 5.4 to 6.1

[Sergey Shyman]

On 6/30/06, Tony Maher <anthony.maher at uts.edu.au> wrote:
> Sergey Shyman wrote:
>
> > I have FreeBSD 5.4 box with Intel865 chipset. The 5.4 works fine nearly
> > a year. But strange troubles happens when I've tried to upgrade to 6.1
> > (via make buildworld && make kernel).
> >
> > The loader show me following messages and then hangs when I try to boot
> > new kernel:
> >
> > Can't work out which disk we are booting from.
> > Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes, defaulting to disk0.
>
> Some one else reported similar problem which were traced to having
> non standard compiler flags in make.conf.
> In particular -funroll-loops is bad for loader.
Yes, I've read about this and try to recompile with -O -pipe and even
without make.conf totally -- no luck :(

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> tonym
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