5.2-BETA issues

[Bernd Walter]

On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 11:54:10AM +1100, Rob B wrote:
> I'd like to try 5.2-BETA on my PC64, it was running 5.1-RELEASE, but when I 
> cvsupped to -CURRENT and followed the build world, buildkernel, 
> installkernel, reboot steps in /usr/src/UPDATING, I now get a kernel stack 
> fault:
> 
> <loader loads>
> FreeBSD/alpha SRM disk boot, Revision
> (root at aylee.number6, Sun Nov 30 04:07:30 EST 2003)
> Memory 131072 k
> \
> halted CPU 0
> 
> halt code = 2
> kernel stack not valid halt
> PC = 18110
> boot failure

Switch to a /boot/loader.old for recovery.
You have to press space at the right time - IIRC directly after the
first SRM booting message loaded from disk - to give an alternate name.

> So I thought I would boot from the 5.1-RELEASE floppies (thuis machine 
> doesn't have a SCSI CDROM), but they do not appear to have a valid boot 
> block.  I tried several different disks, just in case.
> 
> Can I make the floppy bootable with some tool, or is it a problem with the 
> build?
> 
> Will there be floppies built for 5.2-BETA (or 5.2-RELEASE for that matter)?

There will be no more floppies because of size issues.

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