On 23 Aug, 2004, at 10:51, Steven Friedrich wrote:
On Monday 23 August 2004 01:39 pm, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
So, could someone tell me if my system is salvageable or not and what
I
need to do?
Or, should I just start over?
Curtis
On 21 Aug, 2004, at 17:06, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
So, it is my understanding that I did in fact do things right (or
that
is
to say that The Complete FreeBSD had the right directions. But that
something else went wrong.
BTW, I installed 4.8 from scratch. Then spent a couple of days
preparing
to do a cvsup making sure that I set everything up right (sources:
Complete FreeBSD, freebsd.org, and this list.
Then I did the cvsup. Everything else I've already written about in
a
previous letter.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem that booting into an old kernel is an
option. I have looked at the files on my system and there is no
kernel.old or anything like it. There is only a kernel directory
under
the
/boot/ directory.
What information do I need to provide to perhaps salvage this system?
And what steps did I possibly miss?
Curtis
"Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Yup. Go back to the top --- I missed where
in your list of steps you actually *installed*
the new kernel...
That would be where he said:
make kernel
which is equivalent to "make buildkernel installkernel".
It doesn't explain quite what's happening here, though -- and he
didn't even *hint* at such basic clues as what version he was
updating
from or to (there may be extra steps for large updating jumps).
Booting the old kernel is certainly worth a try before starting
over,
though; the system is quite likely to be salvageable.
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Try to boot into single-user mode, i.e., when the system boots, it'll
display
a 10 second countdown. Hit spacebar to abort the countdown. Then type
boot
-s and it'll boot into single-user mode with only the root partition
mounted.
type mount -a to get the other partitions mounted.
Then redo your buildworld,etc., but skip mergemaster stuff.
Here's the steps:
cd /usr/src
make buildworld
make buildkernel KERNCONF=yourkernelname (you DID copy GENERIC and
customize
it didn't you?)
make installkernel KERNCONF=yourkernelname
make installworld
reboot
Skipping the mergemaster stuff will mean that any recent changes to
various
config files will be missing, but you should be able to come up
multi-user.
If these steps fail, it'll probably be easier to just reinstall.
As I wrote in an earlier letter, I can't get into single-user mode.
Here's what happens after using the boot -s option:
It's asks: Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh
But when I hit RETURN, it says: pid 7 (ssh), uid -: exited on signal 12
Aug 20 08:41:58 init: single user shell terminated, restarting
and then it asks again: Enter full path....
I have tried also manually entering in:
/bin/sh
/bin/csh
/bin/chsh
/usr/local/bin/bash
etc.
etc.
Curtis
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