Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 20:26:39 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@catpipe.net> Cc: freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Latest kernel doesn't work on PPC? Message-ID: <p0621023bbe876907c5ca@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20050416231326.GD36756@flow.eu.org> References: <p0621023abe8747bcf825@[128.113.24.47]> <20050416231326.GD36756@flow.eu.org>
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At 1:13 AM +0200 4/17/05, Phil Regnauld wrote: >Garance A Drosihn (drosih) writes: >> But it seems that CD (the miniinst.iso from Dec 29th) doesn't have the >> mount command? It has mount_nfs and mount_msdosfs, but those won't > > do much for me! Am I missing something obvious here? > > >> Is there any simple way for me to get back to the kernel which had > > been working for me? > > You can ifconfig the interface then nfs mount a filesystem on > another box on which you have placed a recovery kernel. I am afraid that I don't understand how this would work. I have a disk partition /dev/ad0s5 on my-ppc machine. It is usually '/' when I boot up. But apparently I can not mount that partition if I have booted up off the miniinst.iso CD. While I have other freebsd machines, they are not PowerPC. I can not nfs-export /dev/ad0s5 to any of those other machines, since I can not mount it on the original machine. I *could* nfs-mount partitions *from* those other machines on my-ppc machine, but what good does that do if I have no access to the hard disk on my-ppc? Even if I had a recovery kernel on some other machine, I seem to have no access to /dev/ad0s5, so I have no way to replace the kernel which isn't working. If I *did* have a way to access (and modify) /dev/ad0s5, then I could just use the kernel.old which is on there. I don't need a kernel from any other machine. [note: this is not a crisis for me. I am just curious what the quickest way out of this would be] -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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