I tried to do a make buildworld, make buildkernel, make installkernel,
reboot, make installworld from an old version of 7.2-STABLE to revision
195666. I was in single user mode the entire time.
The first three steps worked perfectly. The final step resulted in an
error which I forgot to log. I
On Jul 17, 2009, at 1:55 PM, Eitan Adler wrote:
How could I get out of this state without losing data?
Start by making a backup of the existing system. Do a clean
reinstall, preferably on other disk or system, and then restore your
data files onto this other disk/system and test before
Eltan,
The actual problem is the fact you installed the kernel, booted the
new kernel and are using the old world.
You can boot the old kernel and do a make installworld and it will work.
The world and the kernel will have problems, especially if there are
major version differences between the
