Subject: Re: netstat problem with ksyms.
To: NetBSD-current Discussion List <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Pavel Cahyna <pavel@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 05/27/2006 22:14:18
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 09:07:48PM +0100, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
> On 5/27/06, Pavel Cahyna <pavel@netbsd.org> wrote:
> >On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 01:13:12PM +0100, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> It seems if one has
> ...
> >> 12117      1 netstat  exit(0x1)
> >> .....
> >>
> >> Obviously with no ksyms in the kernel, it cannot open /dev/ksyms and
> >> carries on it's work.
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> >>
> >> (BTW this is -current from yesterday, i386).
> >
> >- did it work before yesterday?
> >
> >- do you have "options MULTIBOOT"?
> Yes, that is necessary now AFAIU:
> ...
> options         MULTIBOOT       # Multiboot support (see multiboot(8))
> options         MULTIBOOT_SYMTAB_SPACE=1048576
> ...

Thanks. Did it work before? Or is it your first kernel built with
MULTIBOOT?

Another question, do you use grub from pkgsrc? Which version?

BTW I think grub should be able to (somehow) boot a kernel without
MULTIBOOT.

Pavel