System borked: loader stack overflow.

Luigi Rizzo rizzo at iet.unipi.it
Sun Jan 18 01:28:30 PST 2009


On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:09:52PM -0500, Andrew Lankford wrote:
> After rebuilding world from 7-stable after cvsup, I can no longer boot.  
> The loader tries to load the kernel but instead locks up  with a stack 
> overflow.  Wish I could send more details, but I'll have to find another 
> way to boot up my system first.

just to identify the problem - what was the version of your
previous loader, and what kind of CPU do you have (Intel or AMD,
single or multi core) etc.

(to boot again you can replace /boot/loader with one taken from
an older 6.3 or 7.0 CD)

cheers
luigi


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