Hammer boot cannot load modules anymore

Michael Neumann mneumann at ntecs.de
Sun Jan 11 21:33:41 PST 2009


Am 12.01.2009 01:15, schrieb Simon 'corecode' Schubert:
> Michael Neumann wrote:
>> At first it worked, but now, after using the system for a while I
>> cannot load modules at boot time anymore. So I always have to disable
>> acpi, otherwise it will hang shortly after showing some progress
>> trying to load the module (it just shows a few "/", "|", backslash,
>> "-" characters, then it hangs).
>>
>> The kernel itself boots just fine. I am using the GENERIC kernel.
>
> Can you try updating loader (and if that works boot2 (disklabel64 -B))
> and try if it works now? You can of course also use hammerread.c as a
> test before (probably better :). I can't reproduce the same setting you
> have on your HDD, but I think I've fixed the issue.
hammerread does work now. But I haven't had success with disklabel64 -B
yet. Btw, the manpage of disklabel64 doesn't mention that it can be used
to write the bootcode. So what exactly would I need to do?
  disklabel64 -r -B -s /boot/boot1_64 -b /boot/boot2_64

Anything else?

Regards,

  Michael





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