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Subject: Re: system crash during make installworld
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on 21/02/2011 10:04 David J Brooks said the following:
> As the subject suggests, my laptop crashed during make installworld. The new
> kernel boots, but the ELF interpreter is not found and I cannot get to a single
> user prompt. What is the least painful way to proceed?

My take would be an alternative bootable media: live CD or install CD or etc.

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Andriy Gapon