From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 25 00:44:40 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B8EF1065694 for ; Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:44:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net) Received: from mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7F618FC17 for ; Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:44:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smoochies.rachie.is-a-geek.net (mailhub.lan.rachie.is-a-geek.net [192.168.2.11]) by mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93A217E818; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:44:37 -0900 (AKST) From: Mel Flynn To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:44:31 -0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (FreeBSD/8.0-STABLE; KDE/4.3.1; i386; ; ) References: <4B33845D.40206@southportweb.co.uk> <200912240730.30893.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> <4B33B73E.70609@southportweb.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4B33B73E.70609@southportweb.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200912241544.31677.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> Cc: Colin Subject: Re: Upgrade 7.0 to 7.2 installworld failed X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:44:40 -0000 On Thursday 24 December 2009 09:47:26 Colin wrote: > On 24/12/2009 16:30, Mel Flynn wrote: > > I'm going to guess from the fact that installworld tries to build stuff, > > that /usr/obj is a filesystem that isn't mounted after your reboot or > > that the MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX you had set in your environment before reboot, > > is unset. > > /usr/obj is a folder within the /usr partition not its own filesystem > and /usr is mounted fine so unfortunately for me its nothing as simple > as that. > > As to the prefix, I haven't manually set that anywhere. The buildworld > log seems to set it during the build as there are several make lines > with things like "MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj/usr/src/rescue/rescue" and > "MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp" Take the reboot out of the equation and keep it simple: su to root mkdir /usr/testdir cd /usr/src env -i make buildworld env -i make installworld DESTDIR=/usr/testdir Kernel has nothing to do with installworld target. -- Mel