On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 11:39:39AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey, > > After adding KDB, KDB_UNATTENDED and DDB, two of my 5.3-STABLE servers > never came back after a reboot. After talking to the datacenter, they > informed me these servers are trying to boot of /kernel and not > /boot/kernel/kernel .. > > What might be causing this behaviour ? /kernel was 4.X and these servers > never knew what 4.X was. > > This only happened after adding KDB, KDB_UNATTENDED and DDB to the kernel > config, I had recompiled the kernel before and it never tried to look > /kernel instead of /boot/kernel/kernel > > # file /kernel > /kernel: cannot open (/kernel) > # file /boot/kernel/kernel > /boot/kernel/kernel: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 > (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
Old loader? Local configuration of loader or boot blocks? > I rebuilt a kernel on my FreeBSD home gateway (also 5.3-STABLE) and also > adding GDB, I didn't have this problem. > > Is there any loader.conf variable which sets the kernel that should be > booted ? Yes, see the manpage. Kris
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