Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 17:08:06 -0500 From: "Michael E. Mercer" <mmercer@ipass.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: SOLVED! Re: HELP! I royally screwed things up. 3.1 KERNEL just hangs. Message-ID: <37014B46.E4D29077@ipass.net> References: <37004193.D39D708@ipass.net> <19990330130004.J413@lemis.com> <370046FB.EF84A0D7@ipass.net> <19990330133357.M413@lemis.com> <3700515E.7109D2C4@ipass.net> <19990330135610.O413@lemis.com>
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Greg, Thanks for telling me about PicoBSD, it worked. Also thanks to the PICOBSD project team, you saved me! later Michael Mercer Greg Lehey wrote: > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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