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Re: Unable to boot -current amd64 kernel



On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 06:55:34PM -0400, Jared D. McNeill wrote:

> Andrew Doran wrote:
> >On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 06:17:47PM -0400, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
> >
> >>Trying to boot a -current amd64 kernel from sources ~30 minutes ago 
> >>results in a screen full of many colours and spades as soon as the kernel 
> >>loads followed by a reboot. Anyone else seeing this?
> >
> >Was working for me 4 or 5 hours ago. I'll try again.
> 
> For what it's worth I'm not using the new biosboot (so no modules btinfo 
> support etc).

I tried two systems, one headless and one not, one with new boot blocks the
other without, and it works for me. Are you using a custom kernel configuration
or anything? Have you tried a clean rebuild of the kernel?

Andrew


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