From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 21 10:28:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D6DC37B43C; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 10:28:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from foo.osd.bsdi.com (root@foo.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.137]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f3LHSlK63013; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 10:28:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by foo.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f3LHQj264230; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 10:26:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <000901c0ca1d$9341cfc0$931576d8@inethouston.net> Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 10:26:45 -0700 (PDT) Organization: BSD, Inc. From: John Baldwin To: "David W. Chapman Jr." , imp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kernel core Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 21-Apr-01 David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > I just tried to do an installkernel on a new kernel I built and I got the > same error except the last line changed to > > stopped at ffs_dirpref+0x210 movzbl 0(%ECX,%EAX,1),%EAX > > Do I have any hope at recovering from this or should I start again with 4 > and upgrade to -current. I'm assuming is a problem with the kernel and > without being able to update the kernel and install a new one, I don't think > I can fix it. You need to rebuild fsck and install it and fsck your filesystems. This is the dirpref changes biting you. Warner, we probably need an entry in UPDATING for the dirpref changes that warn people to build and install a new fsck before booting a dirpref kernel. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.Baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message