Re: Booting netbsd-8 fails

[edgar%pettijohn-web.com@localhost]

You probably just need to build the modules and install them.

Or you can build your kernel with npf included.

Edgar
On Jul 23, 2018 9:39 AM, Gua Chung Lim <gua.chunglim%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Thanks for your very kind responses,
>
> * Martin Husemann (martin%duskware.de@localhost) wrote:
> >> But where shall I extract these modules?
> >> You said /, but aren't module sets in /stand/ARCH/X.Y/modules/?
> > 
> > Yes, just extract it in / too - the modules in there have the proper path
> > and will extract to stand/...
> Noted and thanks.
> But I really want to fix it from source.
> That is one of all the reasons I love NetBSD.
>
> * edgar%pettijohn-web.com@localhost (edgar%pettijohn-web.com@localhost) wrote:
> > I'm pretty sure I've had the same happen before and it was because I had forgotten to build new modules also. Might be worth a try to just not load the npf modules. If it boots that's it.
> Thanks for shining light. :-)
> I have resurrected it from crash.
> I boot from dvd and mount /dev/wd0a then edit /boot.cfg .
> Then I remove these three lines.
>
> load=npf
> load=npf_ext_log
> load=npf_ext_normalize
>
> That's it. It boots.
>
> But how can I re-enable NPF in NetBSD 8?
>
> Thank you,
>
> -- 
> Gua Chung Lim
>
> "UNIX is basically a simple operating system,
> but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity."
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