On Sun, Feb 14, 1999, Stephen Montgomery-Smith put this into my mailbox: > Yesterday I did an upgrade from 3.0-Release to 3.1-beta. I did > make world, then I made the kernel. At the end of the make kernel, > I got a message about the kernel being elf!!! Bad timing to find > out about this - I was told to look at > http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html > and by this time, the code mismatch between the binary executables > and the kernel made netscape unusable. Good thing I > wasn't upgrading from 2.2.x, maybe then I could not have even installed > lynx or Mosaic to get the info I needed.
Odd. Netscape runs for me. I have an ELF kernel and the new bootblocks, and obviously a new ELF world. [ch...@holly ~] $ uname -srm FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386 > > Well, I did get it figured out. But I have one suggestion for the > web page > http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html > > It told me that I needed new bootblocks. I think a paragraph explanation > of what bootblocks is would have helped a very great deal. As it was > it was like telling me to wear a nuffle on my head when it is cold. > Like, what is a nuffle? So what is a bootblock? I did figure > out enough to get it to work (I am guessing that a bootblock is > some code at the beginning of each slice that is loaded by booteasy). I believe the boot blocks contain the software required to access the disk and boot the kernel. Obviously you'd need new boot blocks if you'll be trying to run a kernel that the 2.2 blocks don't understand. -- <SIGBUS> Bus error (passengers dumped) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
