From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 21 18:06:41 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EDE7106566C for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:06:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no) Received: from thalia-smout.broadpark.no (thalia-smout.broadpark.no [80.202.8.21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B870F8FC21 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:06:40 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from terra-smin.broadpark.no ([80.202.8.13]) by thalia-smout.broadpark.no (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u3-15.01 64bit (built Feb 12 2010)) with ESMTP id <0LGZ00LQT8V21I60@thalia-smout.broadpark.no> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:06:38 +0100 (CET) Received: from kg-v2.kg4.no ([84.48.120.77]) by terra-smin.broadpark.no (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u3-15.01 64bit (built Feb 12 2010)) with SMTP id <0LGZ0051V8V1I300@terra-smin.broadpark.no> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:06:38 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:06:37 +0100 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.0 (GTK+ 2.22.1; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.1) X-Face: "t9w2,-X@O^I`jVW\sonI3.,36KBLZE*AL[y9lL[PyFD*r_S:dIL9c[8Y>V42R0"!"yb_zN,f#%.[PYYNq; m"_0v; ~rUM2Yy!zmkh)3&U|u!=T(zyv,MHJv"nDH>OJ`t(@mil461d_B'Uo|'nMwlKe0Mv=kvV?Nh@>Hb<3s_z2jYgZhPb@?Wi^x1a~Hplz1.zH Subject: Re: system crash during make installworld X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:06:41 -0000 On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:56:36 +0200 Andriy Gapon 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