Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 19:47:29 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Stuck Message-ID: <20110213194729.05a9afc5.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <4D582895.7090300@comcast.net> References: <4D580C00.6060902@comcast.net> <19800.3705.156052.864114@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <4D582895.7090300@comcast.net>
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On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:53:09 -0800, Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> wrote: > I completely misspoke, having confused the hard drive in question with > another box. This drive is a 40G drive, of which 500MB was allotted for > root. For a current FreeBSD system, this is a bit too small (although sufficient under certain circumstances). Making / 1G or 2G should be fully sufficient in all cases. > When I ran your command I noticed the /boot/kernel.old was very > large, so I moved the whole thing over to my home directory, which > finally allowed me to boot the computer normally. The .old file is a backup of the previous kernel, this backup is created automatically when you "make installkernel". > This was an intuitive > move, and probably not that kosher, but it worked. It simply removes the ability to boot the old kernel, which doesn't seem to be a problem here. > But where do we go > from here? Check your kernel configuration (remove symbols), maybe remove building of modules you don't need (see "man src.conf" for details), repeat the installation procedure outlined in /usr/src/Makefile (comment section at the beginning). You should then end up with a fully functional updated system. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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