From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 2 17:24:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mojave.sitaranetworks.com (mojave.sitaranetworks.com [199.103.141.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F2F414CB9; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 17:24:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com) Message-ID: <19991202202419.01433@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 20:24:19 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: bdevs have been assimilated. Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <19991125133001.64729@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from Matthew Jacob on Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 05:21:55PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 2 December 1999 at 17:21:55 -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > Well, I am truly f*cked now. I read enough of this thread, saw nothing new > in UPDATING, and did the following: > > alpha > > kernel from today > MAKEDEV from today > (but not a make world install- the binaries/libs are ~week old) > > cannot get out of single user mode. fsck core dumps. Any failed command > causes the single user shell to exit. > > What can I do to get out of this disaster other than attempt a reinstall? Can't you boot from the old kernel? Or have you already wiped the bdevs? If so, how about the fixit floppy/CD-ROM? Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message