From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 25 9:14:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from knock.econ.vt.edu (knock.econ.vt.edu [128.173.172.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF67737B646 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 09:14:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rdmurphy@knock.econ.vt.edu) Received: (from rdmurphy@localhost) by knock.econ.vt.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA01079; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 12:14:44 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rdmurphy) From: "Russell D. Murphy Jr." MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14717.48372.534815.567538@knock.econ.vt.edu> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 12:14:44 -0400 (EDT) To: FreeBSD-stable@freebsd.org Subject: "can't load kernel" after build/install world/kernel X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 9) "Canyonlands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: rdmurphy@vt.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I seem to have shot myself in the foot. I ran cvsup, buildworld, installworld, buildkernel, and installkernel yesterday on my laptop as well as my desktop. The laptop will no longer boot FreeBSD; the desktop is fine. The laptop shows: F1 DOS F2 FreeBSD Default: F2 BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 Console: internal video/keryboard BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive C: is disk1 BIOS 639kB/64448kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8 (root@clifden.econ.vt.edu, Mon Jul 24 14.53.22 EDT 2000) Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key ofr command prompt. Booting [kernel]... can't load 'kernel' can't load 'kernel.old' ok ls open '/' failed: no such file or directory ok lsdev disk @0x10738 disk0: BIOS drive A disk1: BIOS drive C pxe @ 0xe4dc The machine boots up in W95. The machine was running 4.0-Stable from a few weeks ago. I have a script which runs the sequence of build/install steps; the script on the laptop stopped because the laptop was running under a different machine name than usual and so the script did not find the kernel config file. I ran buildkernel and installkernel by hand for my kernel config file and for GENERIC. I believe I followed the UPDATING instructions (but something's not working, so I probably missed something). Any suggestions? Thanks- Russ Murphy -- Russell D. Murphy Department of Economics Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 3034 Pamplin Hall Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0316 (540) 231-4537 rdmurphy@vt.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message