From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 17 00:26:55 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E7F916A4CE for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 00:26:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp2.server.rpi.edu (smtp2.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B85EF43D39 for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 00:26:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp2.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j3H0Qf5m002510; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 20:26:41 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20050416231326.GD36756@flow.eu.org> References: <20050416231326.GD36756@flow.eu.org> Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 20:26:39 -0500 To: Phil Regnauld From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) on 128.113.2.2 cc: freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Latest kernel doesn't work on PPC? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 00:26:55 -0000 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