From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 29 20:26:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 730E1157FB for ; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 20:26:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA29116; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 13:56:12 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id NAA26099; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 13:56:11 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990330135610.O413@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 13:56:10 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: mmercer@ipass.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP! I royally screwed things up. 3.1 KERNEL just hangs. References: <37004193.D39D708@ipass.net> <19990330130004.J413@lemis.com> <370046FB.EF84A0D7@ipass.net> <19990330133357.M413@lemis.com> <3700515E.7109D2C4@ipass.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <3700515E.7109D2C4@ipass.net>; from Michael E. Mercer on Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 11:21:50PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 29 March 1999 at 23:21:50 -0500, Michael E. Mercer wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> >> On Monday, 29 March 1999 at 22:37:31 -0500, Michael E. Mercer wrote: >>> Greg Lehey wrote: >>>> >>>> On Monday, 29 March 1999 at 22:14:27 -0500, Michael E. Mercer wrote: >>>>> Hello, >>>>> >>>>> I was running 4.0 current, I decided to cvsup the 3.1 Stable >>>>> and run that. I did make world and I rebuilt the kernel. >>>>> >>>>> Now the system justs hangs when it tries to boot the kernel. >>>>> >>>>> I get the first line of output from the kernel, but then nothing. >>>> >>>> Can you boot the old kernel? >>> >>> I tried kernel.old, kernel, I even had an old kernel.mercer... >> >> And the results? >> >>> The kernel.mercer is an old aout version and therfore the >>> mount command fails. >> >> You get as far as a mount command? I thought you only got one line of >> output. What's the last line? >> >> You can also try booting PicoBSD (see http://www.FreeBSD.org/~picobsd/ >> for where to get a floppy) and see what it can recognize. > > The old aout version gets me to the mount part... (kernel.mercer) What's the message? > The old kernel gives me some input/output read error (kernel.old) What's the message? > The new kernel gives me jsut that one line of input. (kernel) Just the Copyright notice? Otherwise, what's the message? > kernel.GENERIC gets me as far as kernel.mercer Have you tried PicoBSD? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message