From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 28 04:40:49 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA11519 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 04:40:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sis.bytes.gen.nz ([203.97.44.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA11510 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 04:40:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phillip@sis.bytes.gen.nz) Received: from localhost (phillip@localhost) by sis.bytes.gen.nz (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id BAA01225; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 01:38:39 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from phillip@sis.bytes.gen.nz) Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 01:38:32 +1300 (NZDT) From: Phillip Hardy X-Sender: phillip@sis To: Mike Zanker cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Celeron 333 kernel panic In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990128120838.00b2e350@aire.open.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Mike Zanker wrote: > OK, I've been very, very silly and not kept a GENERIC kernel around and > cannot boot with my existing kernel. Is there some way of booting from > floppy (e.g. boot.flp from 3.0-RELEASE or 3.0-SNAP) and copying a GENERIC > kernel to my existing root partition. I should be very grateful if someone > could point me in the direction of any documentation. > Hi Mike Tryed usering Fixit floppy... useing the fixit floppy you can then mount your root filesystem.. and start mounting other filesystems like /var /usr etc. and then goto /usr/src/sys/i386/conf edit your hostnamefile.. Add 686 support config hostname ; cd ../../compile/hostname make clean ; make depend ; make ; make install Reboot (x fingers) and hopefully you will be back with us) Phill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message