Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:06:37 +0100 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: system crash during make installworld Message-ID: <20110221180637.50fa0dd2.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <4D629944.9020202@freebsd.org> References: <1497633402.908693.1298275211209.JavaMail.root@sz0078a.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net> <1803560057.908709.1298275440098.JavaMail.root@sz0078a.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net> <4D629944.9020202@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:56:36 +0200 Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> wrote: > 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. Or, if the hard drive is easy to get at, and he has the a (S)ATA-to-usb dongle / dock; connect the hard drive to another FreeBSD machine and copy required files off that one. But first things first: does the old kernel still boot? (depending on how far in the process make installworld came, it might) HTH -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen
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