On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:56:36 +0200 Andriy Gapon <a...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> on 21/02/2011 10:04 David J Brooks said the following: > > As the subject suggests, my laptop crashed during make installworld. The new > > kernel boots, but the ELF interpreter is not found and I cannot get to a > > single > > user prompt. What is the least painful way to proceed? > > My take would be an alternative bootable media: live CD or install CD or etc. Or, if the hard drive is easy to get at, and he has the a (S)ATA-to-usb dongle / dock; connect the hard drive to another FreeBSD machine and copy required files off that one. But first things first: does the old kernel still boot? (depending on how far in the process make installworld came, it might) HTH -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
