5.2-BETA issues

[Rob B]

At 12:11 PM 7/12/2003, Bernd Walter sent this up the stick:
>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.

Thanks, caught it

> > 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.

bugger :(    I don't suppose that FreeBSD will ever suport dd-ing whatever 
file will be used to boot from to swap space in the same way that Open- and 
NetBSD do?  At least this way there won't be so much of a size restriction 
on that file.

cheers,
Rob



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