Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 17:28:53 +0000 From: "N.J. Mann" <njm@njm.f2s.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: error when doing make installworld Message-ID: <20061224172853.GA1320@ariel.njm.f2s.com> In-Reply-To: <927371.13655.qm@web51109.mail.yahoo.com> References: <927371.13655.qm@web51109.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sunday, 24 December, 2006 at 08:46:15 -0800, Dino Vliet wrote: > Hi peeps, > > I have tried to update my src with cvsup and got stuck > because of an error while doing make installworld. > > My system is an amd64 machine running freebsd 6.1 and > I have performed the steps without problems: > -make buildworld > -make buildkernel kernconf=mykkernel > -make installkernel kernconf=mykernel > > Normally I would then immediately follow this sequence > with a mergemaster -p, make installworld and > mergemaster -i and then reboot. > > However, this time I decided to check the handbook and > saw that it recommended to do a boot into single user > mode between the step -make installkernel > kernconf=mykernel AND the step mergemaster -p. > > So I did it and when I rebooted and saw the beastie > splash screen, I hit option 4. Then I had to press > enter to get to the shell. When I did I noticed I > couldn't cd into the /usr/src directory because the > /usr/src directory was missing! Probably because /usr wasn't mounted. Try mount -a and then cd /usr/src Cheers, Nick.
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