I just did a "make buildworld; make installworld; mergemaster" I am not at home at teh moment and the laptop is the only machine there so the serial; cable wouldn't help much.. I will re-install it and try it again with your suggested hack
As for what's there I'm not kidding when I say "too fast for my neurons". It flashes past so quickly I;m not completely sure at all what I'm seeing. CDROM bootblocks worked fine :-) On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 31-Dec-01 Julian Elischer wrote: > > I upgraded by cvs on saturday night, > > Sunday I didn't use it. > > Monday I tried to boot it. but the loader says: > > ASSERT <mumble> > > and the system reboots > > Hmm, the string "ASSERT" doesn't appear as a text string anywhere under > /sys/boot. Hmm, libstand does have it, and the ficl library seems to use it. > A serial console would save the message so you had time to read it. :) If you > want to introduce a sleep, then sys/boot/i386/loader/main.c has an exit() > function you could put a while(1) or some such in. Are you sure you don't have > your loader and 4th scripts out of sync? > > -- > > John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message