From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 23 07:16:55 2004 Return-Path: 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 6DEB016A4CE for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 07:16:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp02.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (smtp.nuvox.net [64.89.70.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB57843D5C for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 07:16:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@jwebmedia.com) Received: from [192.168.1.107] (66.49.54.54.nw.nuvox.net [66.49.54.54]) i3NEGrvS015663 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 10:16:53 -0400 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.4.030702.0 Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 09:16:52 -0500 From: Joseph Koenig To: Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: Upgrade gone bad, please help X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:16:55 -0000 I have a system that was running FreeBSD 4.3. At the time I built the system, I compiled a custom kernel, but at this time, I do not need the modifications I made to the kernel. Turns out I never really did need them. So, I went to upgrade the machine to 4.9 using sysinstall. All went well, except when I rebooted, it says it can't find the kernel. It then boots up, but nothing works. I can log into the system at the physical machine, but no network connections work, even things such as "top" and "ps" give me 'Out of Memory' errors. The machine has 1 GB of RAM. I did make a complete backup of the system before upgrading. I also have my previous kernel. Will it help to reinstall the previous kernel? If so, how do I do that? Thanks, Joe Koenig Production Manager jWeb New Media Design joe@jWebmedia.com http://www.jwebmedia.com/ 636.928.3162