Subject: Re: bad symbol table when ddb configured?
To: Matthias Pfaller <leo@dachau.marco.de>
From: Jon Buller <jonb@metronet.com>
List: port-pc532
Date: 09/01/1997 21:03:57
"Matthias Pfaller" <leo@dachau.marco.de> wrote:
> Jon Buller wrote:
> > I double checked by building two kernels,
> > the only difference was the config line "options ddb".  One had it
> > commented out, the other didn't.  And, yes, the boot loader did
> > not like ddb for some reason.
> >
> > Anyone else see this?  Was/is it more SUP/upgrade problems?
> 
> I bet you bim'ed your bootloader ages ago :-) The bootloader had
> a bug regarding loading the symboltable. As long as nobody used
> the symboltable everything was fine. Now that we have ddb the kernel
> will notice this (when compiled with options ddb). Recreate the
> boot programm and re-bim your boot partition.

Uh, Matthias, you *know* it was done only a (few?) months ago when I wiped
out my one and only good disk, with no backup 8-)  I *think* I did it again
a couple of weeks ago, but I'm not sure.  Now, when exactly, was I debugging
(complaing about) the install images... 8-)

Jon Buller