Re: Loading kernel seems to fail at main-n279667-7ce07c41423d

From: David Wolfskill <david_at_catwhisker.org>
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2025 13:14:33 UTC
On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 06:07:45AM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote:
> ...
> After updating sources to main-n279667-7ce07c41423d this morning,
> "buildworld" &c. was also uneventful, but the following reboot did not
> actually complete:  it brought up the loader menu as normal, but seems
> (because it's a bit hard to tell what's going on when the screen is
> blank) to fail to load and transfer control from the loader to the
> kernel.  Eventually, it appears to time out & (attempt a) reboot again;
> absent human intervention, I expect the cycle would repeat indefinitely.
> ....

On the second laptop, I tried escaping to the loader prompt.  I then:
* Verified that nothing was loaded initially
* Successully loaded /boot/kernel/kernel
* Verified that "lsmod" showed that something was now loaded
* Issued "boot"

The machine immediately rebooted.

Booting kernel.old succeeds.

Peace,
david
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