Re: recompiled 6.0 does not boot -- need help !!

2005-11-25 Thread martinko
Bartosz Fabianowski wrote: loader.old??? AFAIK loader is not rebuilt while compiling kernel and there is no such file like loader.old created! It is installed with world and not kernel then. Sorry for getting that wrong, I didn't check. But it makes no difference to the original poster becau

Re: recompiled 6.0 does not boot -- need help !!

2005-11-25 Thread Bartosz Fabianowski
thanks, but the issue is with the loader itself Telling it to use loader.old should definitely work around that problem. Unless, of course, the problem lies within something that starts even earlier. In this case, you could always use a 6.0 CD to restore the original, working, files. - Bart

Re: recompiled 6.0 does not boot -- need help !!

2005-11-25 Thread martinko
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 01:36:48 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar wrote > > boot: > > > > Simply copy the default line and append ".old", as in: > > > > boot: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader.old > > loader.old??? AFAIK loader is not rebuilt while compiling kernel and > there is no such file like loader.old created

Re: recompiled 6.0 does not boot -- need help !!

2005-11-22 Thread Bartosz Fabianowski
loader.old??? AFAIK loader is not rebuilt while compiling kernel and there is no such file like loader.old created! It is installed with world and not kernel then. Sorry for getting that wrong, I didn't check. But it makes no difference to the original poster because he reinstalled both world

Re: recompiled 6.0 does not boot -- need help !!

2005-11-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
boot: Simply copy the default line and append ".old", as in: boot: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader.old loader.old??? AFAIK loader is not rebuilt while compiling kernel and there is no such file like loader.old created! Here, you can tell the loader to boot the previous kernel: OK boot /boot/kernel.

Re: recompiled 6.0 does not boot -- need help !!

2005-11-22 Thread Bartosz Fabianowski
now, when i think of it, i suspect the reason might be CPUTYPE=pentium-m The relevant bug is 75898, which I filed almost a year ago. It has been fixed and MFC'd though, so it should not be affecting 6.0-release (I am using CPUTYPE=pentium-m on 6.0 myself). Most likely, something else went wro