Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 17:41:12 +0200 (MET DST) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.com Subject: Re: HELP! I broke my computer! Message-ID: <199704051541.RAA15002@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199704042200.RAA28783@netcom7.netcom.com> from Stan Brown at "Apr 4, 97 05:00:36 pm"
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> I have done something really dumb! > > I tried using cvsup to grab the 2.2.1 sources for a machine already > happily running 2.2 BETA. cvsup churned for a couple of hours and said > it was done. Then I did a make world. This churned for about 6 hours. > Then I tried a command. I got the message "xxx.so older than expeceted. > Using it anyway". Assuming thaat I needed to reboot, I did a shutdown > -h now. > > Then the trouble started. The machned wento down. On the way up it > stops just after mounting the root partition and dumps me into a shell. > If I try to mount any other partitions, I get the mesage "ufs > filesystem not available". > > HELP! Please. What can I do to get out of this mess? It happened to me also recently. What I had to do was to get an old mount or build a kernel for the new system. If you don't have either you're quite lost. I believe I used the 2.2.1 fixit/boot.flp combo to get the machine up again. You will otherwise hardly be able to even mount the root partition writable. > > Oh, and why isn't tar in /sbin or at leastsomewhere on teh root > partition? It is. /stand/tar. > > Thanks for the help. > > -- > Stan Brown stanb@netcom.com 404-996-6955 > Factory Automation Systems > Atlanta Ga. > -- > Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy! > Pay no attention to that cliff ahead... Henry Spencer > (c) 1997 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. > -- Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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