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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
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From: alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore)
Subject: Re: 0.1pl58+ boots fine 0.1pl110+ doesn't ???
Message-ID: <1993Mar10.231836.10371@netcom.com>
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
References: <1993Mar8.095115.2969@netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 23:18:36 GMT
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In article <1993Mar8.095115.2969@netcom.com> alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore) writes:
>I just tried to install the new patchkit up to patch 110 + Chris's com
>driver + lpr without success - the system reboots immediately upon
>trying to load via Julian's boot blocks (where the NO DDB SYMBOLS
>message might appear).  All the patches took okay (except one: in the
>00099 set, which I think modifies /dev/MKDEV).  I ran dbsym on  the
>kernel, but this makes no difference.

The problem was solved by removing ddb in the config file.
Not sure why this caused problems yet...
Thanks to Nate for helping me solve this one!  
-Andrew Moore <alm@netcom.com>