Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:27:16 -0400 From: Joe Altman <fj@panix.com> To: Joseph Koenig <joe@jwebmedia.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade gone bad, please help Message-ID: <20040423162716.GA29411@panix.com> In-Reply-To: <BCAE8F84.7F56%joe@jwebmedia.com> References: <BCAE8F84.7F56%joe@jwebmedia.com>
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On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 09:16:52AM -0500, Joseph Koenig wrote: > I have a system that was running FreeBSD 4.3. At the time I built the > system, I compiled a custom kernel, but at this time, I do not need the > modifications I made to the kernel. Turns out I never really did need them. > So, I went to upgrade the machine to 4.9 using sysinstall. All went well, > except when I rebooted, it says it can't find the kernel. It then boots up, > but nothing works. I can log into the system at the physical machine, but no > network connections work, even things such as "top" and "ps" give me 'Out of > Memory' errors. The machine has 1 GB of RAM. I did make a complete backup of > the system before upgrading. I also have my previous kernel. Will it help to > reinstall the previous kernel? If so, how do I do that? Thanks, There should be a bootable kernel, in / , no? IOW, if you didn't remove them, you should have kernel.GENERIC and kernel.old; have you tried booting either of those?
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