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

From: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2025 13:42:39 UTC
On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 06:14:33AM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote:
> 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.

Should be fixed by e1a358aa72af, sorry.
I only tested on la57 machine.