From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 28 10:43:39 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA23684 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 10:43:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mortar.carlson.com (mortar.carlson.com [208.240.12.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA23679 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 10:43:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from veldy@visi.com) Received: from mortar.carlson.com (root@localhost) by mortar.carlson.com with ESMTP id MAA28591; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 12:42:43 -0600 (CST) Received: from w142844 ([172.25.99.35]) by mortar.carlson.com with SMTP id MAA28587; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 12:42:34 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <007f01be4aee$0e486550$236319ac@w142844.carlson.com> From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" To: , "Mike Zanker" Subject: Re: Help! Cannot boot system Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 12:43:02 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Place your 3.0-RELEASE boot floppy in and boot: 0:wd(0,a)/generic Should do it for you. Tom Veldhouse veldy@visi.com -----Original Message----- From: Mike Zanker To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thursday, January 28, 1999 12:31 PM Subject: Help! Cannot boot system >I posted a message earlier about having upgraded my CPU/motherboard >preventing my current kernel booting. I'm silly, so I have no GENERIC >kernel either. One or two people were kind enough to suggest solutions but >I'm still stuck. > >Basically, I need to get into my system so that I can compile a new kernel >- the system is 3.0-STABLE as of a couple of days ago. I've tried booting >with the 3.0-RELEASE boot disk and using the fixit floppy but this doesn't >work. The install program asks me to insert a writable fixit floppy and I >do so, but the install program clearly doesn't recognise it and keeps asking. > >However, I do have 2.2.2 CDROMs, so I booted from these and went into Fixit >mode. I mounted my root file system (having fsck'd first) and copied the >generic kernel off the 3.0-RELEASE boot floppy to it (calling it >"generic"). I then umounted and rebooted the machine, letting it boot off >the hard disk. I interrupted the boot and typed "load generic" but this >failed with the error messages: > >aout_loadmodule: not a kernel (maybe static binary?) >load: can't load module /generic: operation not permitted > >I'm now at a loss as to what to do. Is there anything I can add to my 3.0 >boot floppy to make it boot with /dev/wd0s2a as root? Or am I completely stuck. > >I'd hate to have to completely re-install again just to get booted, but it >would sure teach me a lesson about not keeping a generic kernel handy. > >Thanks for any help you can offer, > >Mike >-- >Mike Zanker, Academic Computing Service, The Open University, UK >Tel: +44 1908 652726, Fax: +44 1908 652193 > >Views expressed are personal and do not necessarily reflect University opinion. > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message