Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 20:35:43 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1043202944.d54c5c@mired.org> To: "Doron Shmaryahu" <doron@home.crc.co.za> Cc: "FreeBSD-questions" <FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Make World Steps Message-ID: <15911.27647.869579.944435@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <021201c2bdba$19a55eb0$0801a8c0@dman> References: <021201c2bdba$19a55eb0$0801a8c0@dman>
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In <021201c2bdba$19a55eb0$0801a8c0@dman>, Doron Shmaryahu <doron@home.crc.co.za> typed: This sequence > make buildworld; > make buildkernel KERNCONF=KERNEL > make installkernel KERNCONF=KERNEL > mergemaster -p > make installworld > mergemaster > reboot leaves out the very important step of doing a reboot between the make installkernel and the make installworld. You've just found out why. Your new kernel isn't booting for some reason. If you had found that out before doing the installworld, backing out the kernel would be trivial and you'd have your old system back to work on the problems presented by the new kernel. The one thing that isn't clear from your messages is what the kernels you have rebuilt are doing. If they are going to "btx halted", then try building a kernel with debugging built in, and follow the steps in the writeup on freebsd.org for debugging kernel problems with kdb. If your new kernels are booting fine but ps and top are failing, then you're managing to boot without going through the full boot loader sequence, as that loads the kernel module and sets some symbols. I don't think this is the case, but if it is, how are you booting the system? <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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