From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 16 22:06:41 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6359137B401 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 22:06:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from silver.reallynicehosting.com (silver.reallynicehosting.com [216.40.238.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B047A43FE1 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 22:06:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hosting@reallynicehosting.com) Received: from bigblackhole (ts46-01-qdr64.astra.or.charter.com [66.190.246.64]) (authenticated (0 bits))h5H53ib16538 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 22:03:44 -0700 From: "Jesse Wilson" Sender: "RN Hosting" To: Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 22:08:19 -0700 Message-ID: <012301c3348e$785bd330$6501a8c0@bigblackhole> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: VERY stupid n00b thing to do X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 05:06:41 -0000 Well here's my dumb newbie mistake. I desperately needed to compile disk quota support into my server in a hurry so I went to the manual and read through real quick, went to the /sys dir where the kernels are and saw two kernels, generic, the one that was installed, and lint, the one that already had quota support turned on. So I made, compiled, installed, and rebooted with the LINT kernel. The worst part is that this server is at a colo facility and I'm hoping that I can get the support crew there to reboot the server to kernel.old but it's been an hour with a completely dead server and no response, and it's 10 at night so who knows if they even have anyone there right now, even though they say that they have 24x7 support. If there happens to be anyone else out there, who like me, didn't know what the LINT kernel is, it's a non working kernel that apparently has every single option turned on or something. I guess that I should have googled for "lint kernel" before I tried installing it. :-/ Jesse