Date: Wed, 23 Aug 06 17:22:59 PDT From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) To: gregb@scls.lib.wi.us Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new 6.1 install will not boot Message-ID: <10608240022.AA16583@pluto.rain.com>
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> > After a CD boot, is there a reasonably simple way to have
> > sysinstall reinstall just the kernel -- or the package
> > containing it -- without starting completely over?
>
> Yeah, see what Derek wrote. Never done that, myself, or even
> heard of the kernel not getting installed.
What Derek wrote? I haven't gotten that.
What I did (for the archives):
Make note of root partition. One way to find it is (at
the OK prompt after the boot failure) "more /etc/fstab"
Boot CD
Get into Fixit mode
Mount root partition on /mnt
mkdir /mnt/boot/kernel
cp /dist/boot/kernel/kernel /mnt/boot/kernel
Granted that's the install kernel, which may not be all that
great for general use, but it works well enough to get back to the
X-config trouble I was having before the disk died (which is likely
to become a new thread here -- xorgcfg is producing a blizzard of
unresolved symbol messages when trying to load drivers; the mouse
doesn't work; the keypad-based mouse emulator works after a fashion
but I can't figure how to tell it "ok, done"; ...).
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