From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 30 06:14:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4024516A4DD for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 06:14:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no) Received: from osl1smout1.broadpark.no (osl1smout1.broadpark.no [80.202.4.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A64A743D58 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 06:14:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no) Received: from osl1sminn1.broadpark.no ([80.202.4.59]) by osl1smout1.broadpark.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.05 (built Oct 21 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J4S00EU9S0O5670@osl1smout1.broadpark.no> for freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 08:14:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kg-work.kg4.no ([80.203.92.117]) by osl1sminn1.broadpark.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.05 (built Oct 21 2004)) with SMTP id <0J4S00BCIS0OEIE0@osl1sminn1.broadpark.no> for freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 08:14:48 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 08:14:48 +0200 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen X-Face: "t9w2,-X@O^I`jVW\sonI3.,36KBLZE*AL[y9lL[PyFD*r_S:dIL9c[8Y>V42R0"!"yb_zN,f#%.[PYYNq; m"_0v; ~rUM2Yy!zmkh)3&U|u!=T(zyv,MHJv"nDH>OJ`t(@mil461d_B'Uo|'nMwlKe0Mv=kvV?Nh@>Hb<3s_z2jYgZhPb@?Wi^x1a~Hplz1.zH In-reply-to: <44F50C55.5040803@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Message-id: <20060830081448.df213bee.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i386-portbld-freebsd5.5) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <20060830002232.01cda8ac.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <44F50C55.5040803@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 7.0-CURRENT-200608 on a G4 - panic X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 06:14:50 -0000 On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:56:05 -0700 Peter Grehan wrote: > Was this with a boot by holding down the 'C' key at power up ? Yes, it was. > If so, it might be possible to try a manual load. Break into Open > Firmware and > > 0 > boot cd:,\boot\loader cd:0 Silly me, I should have thought of that. My only excuse is that it has been too long since I did this :-) Ok, so I got the -bootonly cd to boot, and start the installation. However, there aren't any snapshot releases on FfreeBSD ftp servers out there, only snapshot iso's. And the -disc1 iso wouldn't boot. Suddnenly, I got the idea that I could just swap CD's. And it worked - I could swap the cd, change installation media, and continue the installation. The upgrade installation completed without problems. But when I tried to boot into my FreeBSD installation afterwards, it complained that it could not load the kernel. The reason was easy too see - the whole /boot/kernel directory was missing. Thankfully, we have /boot/kernel.prev Booting from /boot/kernel.prev/kernel worked. Now, what is the correct way to install the missing /boot/kernel directory from the cd? can I just copy the /cdrom/boot/kernel directory to /boot? Or is there another way? -- Regards, Torfinn