Re: Loading kernel seems to fail at main-n279667-7ce07c41423d
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 -- David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org Of course firing the statistician will force the statistics to conform! See https://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.