Problems booting - stack overflow at boot menu [ updated and solved ]

[Matt Emmerton]

> > On Wed, December 27, 2006 10:30 pm, Matt Emmerton wrote:
> >
> > > This still happens for the current latest 1.6 snap (09-Dec-06) when
> > > booting
> > > from the live CD for me.I'd love to get DFly installed on this machine
> > > (since 1.2 and 1.4 worked fine), but 1.6 is proving to be a
> challenge.I've
> > > seen the suggestions of using gcc-2 to build boot0, but is difficult
> since
> > > I don't have a DFly build environment nor a livecd instance.Any ideas
on
> > > how to fix this?--Matt Emmerton
> >
> > It sounds like this wierd error so far has only happened on snap release
> > versions; have you tried the release image?
>
> I just downloaded/burned the 1.6-rel image and encounter the same problem.
>
> FreeBSD 4.x installs fine, although the 6.x loader is hit or miss -- 
> sometimes it locks up during the countdown sequence, and sometimes it
works
> 'normally'.  Is it possible that my hardware is crap and needs to be put
to
> rest?

Crap hardware it is!  I retired my klunky P233 box in favour of an Athlon
2400.  The December snap works fine on this box.

--
Matt Emmerton