From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 16 18:35:53 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9059B37B401 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 18:35:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C39243F13 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 18:35:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1043202944.d54c5c@mired.org) Received: (qmail 49838 invoked from network); 17 Jan 2003 02:35:44 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 17 Jan 2003 02:35:44 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15911.27647.869579.944435@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 20:35:43 -0600 To: "Doron Shmaryahu" Cc: "FreeBSD-questions" Subject: Re: Make World Steps In-Reply-To: <021201c2bdba$19a55eb0$0801a8c0@dman> References: <021201c2bdba$19a55eb0$0801a8c0@dman> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.68 (Shut Out) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <021201c2bdba$19a55eb0$0801a8c0@dman>, Doron Shmaryahu typed: This sequence > make buildworld; > make buildkernel KERNCONF=KERNEL > make installkernel KERNCONF=KERNEL > mergemaster -p > make installworld > mergemaster > reboot leaves out the very important step of doing a reboot between the make installkernel and the make installworld. You've just found out why. Your new kernel isn't booting for some reason. If you had found that out before doing the installworld, backing out the kernel would be trivial and you'd have your old system back to work on the problems presented by the new kernel. The one thing that isn't clear from your messages is what the kernels you have rebuilt are doing. If they are going to "btx halted", then try building a kernel with debugging built in, and follow the steps in the writeup on freebsd.org for debugging kernel problems with kdb. If your new kernels are booting fine but ps and top are failing, then you're managing to boot without going through the full boot loader sequence, as that loads the kernel module and sets some symbols. I don't think this is the case, but if it is, how are you booting the system? http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message