System borked: loader stack overflow.

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2009-Jan-17 22:09:52 -0500, Andrew Lankford <lankfordandrew at charter.net> 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.

If you press any key during the first spinner, you should get a prompt
similar to the following:
>> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader
boot:

You can then enter the name of the program you wish to run - eg
/boot/loader.old (or directly load /boot/kernel/kernel)

See the following for a more complete description:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=boot&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+7.1-RELEASE&format=html

Alternatively, you could boot off a "live filesystem" CD.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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