From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 6 15:31:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from meter.hydro.washington.edu (meter.hydro.washington.edu [128.95.246.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5578E37B419 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:31:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (penglish@localhost) by meter.hydro.washington.edu (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id fB6NVFL26242 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:31:15 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:31:14 -0800 (PST) From: Paul English To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: sh dies w/signal 11 on boot Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE The system was working fine prior to a kernel recompile where I hoped to raise the per-process memory limits. Now the kernel boots fine until it tries to run sh, which dies along with any other shell I try to run when I boot. I've booted off the 4.3 cd and told the kernel to mount my / device as /. Then I rebuilt the kernel with the original values - same problem when booting off hdd again. Help! Is there any way I can transfer the cd kernel to the hdd? Or get some kind of working kernel on the hdd? In linux I am familiar with using the boot loader to have multiple kernels - so that when you build a new one if you make a mistake you can use a default working one to boot with and return the system to a working state. Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message